AWS for the Haters in 100 Seconds

AWS is the world's largest cloud provider, but it is far from perfect. Let's take a look at the main reasons people hate Amazon Web Services.

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- Criticism of AWS
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[Fireship]

We're hitting 2M subscribers today! This is video is my gift to you

[fraserrennie]

You made me log into my AWS account to make sure it hasn’t been hacked

[IIInvokeII]

It's insane how large the collection of services is, almost as if they're building an A to Z for Web Services.

[CodingWithLewis]

AWS was founded in 2006. Sadly, the AWS console still works like it's from 2006.

[xuganyu]

As someone who ate a $300 bill from leaving a p3.2xlarge instance on overnight I can testify that this video is 100% accurate

[KingUnKaged]

Suspicious how Fireship's output has increased so dramatically right around the time A.I. writing, voice replication, and art generation began to really take off. If the machines WERE going to take over, they'd probably start off with a channel that somewhat downplays their vast, world-ending potential...

[chbrules]

I'm an AWS certified architect. I don't even bother with 99% of their services, because there are just too many to even bother with! The core services, like EC2, VPC, Route 53, RDS, etc, are worth learning, but the rest are just a mountain of sh**t of AWS-implementations of FOSS tools. You will experience serious vendor lock-in if you use all their stuff. Keep it simple and learn to manage some of your own stuff so you won't be forever beholden to Bezos.

And yes, I've had nightmares in the middle of the night that I left some EC2's on or that I've over- or under-bought enough RI's for our infrastructure. :[

[basdfgwe]

It's crazy how cloud computing doesn't give you a big red stop button. This is especially useful for startups who may be "breaking shit" to get their velocity.

[oronboyxd]

I took the "get hacked" personally, because it literally happened, but with 5000 EC2s, not 500
on 2 regions btw, it was fking "highly-available"

[ASDFG]

As a certified AWS Developer i can testify this is exactly how it is

[manulectric]

AWS is the software equivalent of Home Depot. Sure you've got access to build virtually anything but you really have to know what you are doing.

[cheesecakeivan]

Watching this gave me war flashbacks when I got billed $4000+ on a small app that I was working on. I accidentally added 16TB of storage to my instance when I only intended to add 16GB. Yup, I'm an idiot.

[yoyoma]

By far the most insidious aspect of all of this is just how DAMN HARD it is close CLOSE everything that is costing you money or delete your account. Absolutely anti-consumer.

[brian_ball]

Dang, if AWS adds a HelloWorld service, developers could get started with just a click and the entry of their credit card details.

[MultiMojo]

This is 100% correct. The reason for this is Amazon's god awful leadership principles, which requires shit to be built with 2 pizza teams. The result is 100+ "2 pizza" teams building products with overlapping scope and competing amongst themselves to win the next promotion. For some reason, product managers are used as UX designers, so every "design" looks like crap. Corporate shitshow on an epic scale.

[KarlMathiasMoberg]

As an AWS Architect, I can confirm this video is 100% accurate.

[incyphe]

Amazon's own web site is no different. I just saw a page that hasn't been redesigned in 20 years.

[stefan.astrand]

Forgot to mention the ridiculously complicated authentication system just to make basic requests and the non existing documentation to perform basic tasks.

[JorgetePanete]

My favourite part of AWS S2 is individually selecting files inside of virtual folders and not letting me accidentally select all the files I need to download at once

[schedarr]

it's impossible to find out what are the prices of their services, it's so convoluded that I decided to use another cloud provided that's more expensive but at least has a readable price list