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by re-thc 1155 days ago
> It's intriguing to me that AFAIK load-balancer changes in AWS don't suffer from this problem. (Though, on the other hand, CDN changes do.)

The architecture is a lot different.

Using google means working with the load balancer in some form. It's all interconnected.

AWS is all separate parts that are stitched together thinly.

E.g. you can have a single global load balancer in Google that handles your whole infrastructure (CDN and WAF are part of LB too). There isn't an AWS equivalent. You would need a global accelerator + ALBs per region and more. WAF is tied to each ALB etc.

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> AWS is all separate parts that are stitched together thinly.

Yeah I always hate this when I have to work with AWS. All their services feel like they were designed by completely different companies. Every management interface looks and feels different, and there are tons of services that do almost the same thing so it's not clear which would be best to use. It's a maze to me.

Luckily I don't have to work with cloud a lot but I really prefer Azure where everything is in the same console and there isn't a lot of overlap. But cloud guys seem to hate it, not sure why.

    > I really prefer Azure where everything is in the same console and there isn't a lot of overlap. But cloud guys seem to hate it, not sure why.
Because Azure API's are always changing and their SDK support for non-C# is wild west.

Also, everything is a Wizard because MS doesn't want to expose the sausage factory.