alt Hacker NewsI don't work in that area, so I only touch AWS once in a while for personal fun projects.
And every time it's a nightmare. I'm just banging out a server for my experimental card game, not setting up an new financial institution. Everything looks as if I'm preparing to scale to infinity tomorrow, with a staff of a thousand and a budget backed by VCs.
Fortunately there's Netlify and similar, who put a gloss on it so that I don't have to boil the ocean. I figure that one of these days I might actually be forced to learn IAM and VPNs and God only knows what else. Meantime, every time I touch it my eyes bug out.
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What amazes me is how Heroku absolutely nailed what most web apps need nearly 20 years ago.
it's only a nightmare if you had not to deal with Azure
I switched to Cloudflare and it's been a breath of fresh air - everything I need and the pricing is reasonable.
AWS is aimed at enterprise, not personal projects. Personal projects wouldn’t give them any meaningful revenue because the only thing that matters is cost.
You can just spin up a raw VPS on EC2 or Lightsail, give it a public IP, and call it a day. You aren't required to implement every enterprise pattern in the book.