I have to disagree. After using AWS & GCP, I find AWS “stays out of my way” much much better and has much better documentation. There are weird corners of GCP, like GCS “interop” mode and lack of full compatibility with S3 APIs that feel basically like Google is using dark patterns.
AWS is head & shoulders the better cloud provider. Google is just cheaper.
I love when AWS console stays out of my way so much that I have to pick through its backend HTTP requests in the browser developer tools to figure out why it isn't working even though the UI shows no errors or perhaps even reports success. This is a regular occurrence.
My absolute favorite is when AWS console stays out of my way in a particular manner that hides expensive resources, with bugs in the per-resource console, the cost explorer, and the notifications systems conspiring with each other to deliver a lovely surprise at the end of the month. It's amazing what bugs can do when they work together!
Yeah, or when you try to open an account get stuck in limbo where you can't really access anything in the console, and suddenly you start getting bills for those Jungle Disk disk S3 buckets you forgot about years ago!
Somehow my new AWS account got linked back to those old S3 buckets, and something went terribly wrong. I really need to try to get that fixed somehow, while it's only $7 or so a month, it is still $7 for exactly nothing. Since I to my knowt haven't had an account for the better part of a decade, I was quite surprised that it was actually still retaining those backup buckets, but also that I started getting bills for the bucket. I believe the terms when JD was liquidated was that the buckets would remain, but be free of charge. Well, they were free until I created a new account.
Last time I tried to shut them down I think I actually managed to set up CLI access, but then I got sidetracked by actual work. First time I tried, AWS wouldn't - figuratively - even show me the time, so getting CLI access wasn't even possible.
AWS is head & shoulders the better cloud provider. Google is just cheaper.