I work in IT and I'm looking into teaching myself more about cloud devops stuff and then taking a test to get a certificate. So I basically have to pick if I want to focus on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. I really don't want to support Amazon, but the other two aren't that great either. Is Google still less evil than Microsoft?
The difference in evilness is hard enough to quantify that I wouldn't try. Also the various * as a service offerings are very similar between the big 3 cloud providers.
IMO AWS has the least intuitive interface because it's been around the longest (keeping around garbage legacy UIs) and uses ridiculous names for things. On the other hand, it's the most popular so if you say "AWS" on your resume it looks pretty good.
I'd say to not sweat the evilness of this one, your participation will be in buying some server time for your own education and you can probably make good use of the free tier (costing them money). Get your money and spend it on building socialism.
I swear AWS has internal competitions for most esoteric UI design
Probably one that grew out of a competition for most esoteric API design tbh
Right? It's like they're in love with poorly-labeled tables and putting important settings three menus deep.
Also I demand to know who came up with the name, "elastic beanstalk".
lol yeah, and the RDS monitoring features have the most absurd designs you could possibly choose for the purpose