So in tonight's thread I want to change things up a bit, and talk about things I like about @awscloud. Strap in.
First, the folks working in the tech field, including training and certification as well as @awssupport are miracle workers. I mean, think about it—they have to deal with you people!
IAM is complicated and tricksy, with dangers all about. The identity + security folks have what are functionally impossible jobs, but somehow they consistently deliver.
The EC2 console was *crap* fifteen years ago. Today it's simple, intuitive, and almost makes you forget the complexity masked within. That's a cloud UX turnaround story for the ages.
Route 53 is the only service with a (public) 100% SLA. That's damned impressive.
The containers and serverless folks: have you ever stopped to really consider just how magical "here's my code, run it for me" really is? We complain about the 5% gap while ignoring the 95% that's pure magic.
It's rare that a tool I've built is completely deprecated by a single @awscloud release, but the S3 Storage Lens did it. I couldn't be happier about it. Take a look if you haven't yet.
EFS went from "oh god why are they bringing NFS to the cloud" to a service I like and use myself. I really have no complaints left about it. I'm glad it's here.
The entire Systems Manager suite of offerings, while eclectic, serve to solve a whole raft of problems that once required large teams and expensive tooling to address poorly.
ACM means I no longer have to care about certificates expiring out from under me. Think back; how many site outages would that have saved you ten years ago?
Workspaces is one of those services I think is missing some of the recognition it's due. Why isn't this a household name? They're GLORIOUS!
There are others, but that's enough today. I sometimes fear that my snark about the gaps is mistaken for a dislike of the platform. Far from it—but nobody wants to hear a litany of praise for the stuff that works right every day. If they did I'd have a different job.
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