Billing is terrible, although it has gotten a bit better. Cognito is probably one of the worst services on AWS, and it's only getting worse (there are now two SDKs with different APIs for no reason at all). While things like EC2 and Lambda work pretty well.
Same for Google. Everything that's in use by Googlers is pretty dope - calendar, video conferencing, docs, search obviously, maps, etc. Everything that's not - less so.
You can tell which parts Amazon dogfoods! Billing is terrible, although it has gotten a bit better.
I don't have much detail on Amazon's policy, but there was an AWS devrel on Twitter a while back saying they had to run and pay for their own AWS account as if they were any regular user for their own playing around/research/etc.
Billing is terrible, although it has gotten a bit better. Cognito is probably one of the worst services on AWS, and it's only getting worse (there are now two SDKs with different APIs for no reason at all). While things like EC2 and Lambda work pretty well.