[mk89]

If you hate AWS so much, wait until you use Azure. Worst support ever. UI not in sync with the az-cli, documentation super chaotic, lots of basic features from AWS not yet supported in Azure.

From my experience, AWS has up-to-date documentation pages for everything. And when something is hard to understand from their docs, you can find really everything you need by searching on Google. Literally, everything. And if you ask the support forum, you'll be provided with an answer in relatively short time. Competent answers most of the time.

So, what's the alternative to the ugly AWS web console? Learn the basic concepts, and maybe use the aws cli.

Speaking about the bucket -> https://medium.com/@P_Lessing/single-page-apps-on-aws-part-1...

[redhale]

My experience is exactly inverse to yours. IMO Azure's documentation, in general, is far superior to AWS's. And my experience with Azure support has been stellar.

[toyg]

Azure’s documentation is plentiful, which is good, but it’s also confusing (the same topic might be covered in different ways among two pages, some of it will likely be obsolete because last week the interface changed again, etc...) which is bad.

Knowledge management is hard.

[meddlepal]

> some of it will likely be obsolete because last week the interface changed again, etc...) which is bad.

One of the problems with the Azure documentation is that the API endpoints are versioned (?api-version=yyyy-mm-dd) but the documentation doesn't make it easy to find the relevant version or see the differences between versions.

The interfaces don't change if you pin to a version.

I've been deep diving on Azure for awhile (and have worked extensively with AWS and GCP in the past) and in general I find both Amazon and Azure's docs to have the plentiful but confusing problem. Google's documentation is slightly different... I can never seem to find what I'm looking for but when I do it's comprehensive and complete, but then I can't find it again the next time I need it.

The big pain point with Azure is wrapping your head around Active Directory and AD IAM if you come from a non-AD world. I still vastly prefer Amazon's IAM system to Azure's (Google's is just a confusing mess and needs to be redesigned.)

[jamil7]

I just had flashbacks to the one and only Azure project I ever worked on. I don't know if they were in a transition phase but it was exactly as you described and I wasted days setting up some simple services for our team. Give me AWS any day.

[AndrewKemendo]

I had the exact opposite experience, and we ran our entire company off of Azure for 3 years without any issues.

The only complaint I had was when I needed to rapidly get like 15 N-Series GPU instances and it took like two months. At the time they were new so weren't allocating them as quickly as they do now. Amazon was way faster for us to get GPUs running on - but this was over two years ago now so I'm not sure if that's still the case.