I don't think I've ever seen "fun" and "aws console" used in the same sentence before.
The value to me personally is the reliability. Amazon continues to deliver on highly reliable services, which is IMO the main reason they can charge such a premium.
> I don't think I've ever seen "fun" and "aws console" used in the same sentence before.
In my opinion AWS Console is one of the best designed from all cloud providers out there. GCP is years behind, even with $100k credits I just can force myself to use that pice of unusable crap. Probably Material Design is here to blame, as it's terrible on web.
DigitalOcean does a great job with their interface but they don't even have 1/20 of features offered by AWS, at the end it will share the fate of GCP. Being extremely bloated. :)
My cloud spend is in the millions, soon to be tens of millions, every year and I'm a heavy user of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure and I agree with you wholeheartedly. It's not even just the console but the underlying APIs. I do everything via Terraform anyway but GCP is buggy and inconsistent in areas where it absolutely shouldn't be.
Azure is 5 years ahead of Google Cloud. AWS is 5 years ahead of Azure. The differences are that extreme.
I'm spending literally a fraction of your budget and that is my amateurish assessment as well. AWS Console can be better but the Azure dashboard could've been from the 90s. I had a hard time navigating it.
"In my opinion AWS Console is one of the best designed from all cloud providers out there. GCP is years behind, even with $100k credits I just can force myself to use that pice of unusable crap. Probably Material Design is here to blame, as it's terrible on web."
I hear this for the first time; to me all the Amazon related interfaces I've used have resulted in poor user experience at best. This goes from the store to AWS and sellerscentral should really get a special mention. In AWS, I always felt that everything was super cluttered and important things hard to find, nowhere near intuitive. This goes for high level concepts as much as component behaviors like lists in s3... So, I'd be super curious to hear what you found that was so good. Care to share?
> I don't think I've ever seen "fun" and "aws console" used in the same sentence before.
To each their own, but the ability to deploy seemingly endless amounts of computing power to do whatever I want, with the click of my mouse, is something I could only dream of as a kid.
I had that kid-like wonder at a recent project where I had to re-architect an Amazon-hosted website for a customer.
It took me back to that childhood experience of playing with Lego. Everything just "snaps together", and a lot of things that ought to be difficult were shockingly easy.
Mid-way through the project the customer apologised because they forgot to mention that they needed geo-redundancy for every layer, including the database.
It was a checkbox on AWS Aurora. A literal checkbox. I pressed it. There was a progress notification and then it was done. Just like that. A distributed cluster.
I know what's involved, it's not like I haven't built SQL Server clusters dozens of times before, I've even scripted the process before. But it's kind of magic to see it condensed down to a the absolutely most trivial true/false button that it could possibly be.
The value to me personally is the reliability. Amazon continues to deliver on highly reliable services, which is IMO the main reason they can charge such a premium.