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disgruntledphd2today at 2:29 PM3 repliesview on HN

> That’s my experience with any of the 3 hyperscalers when reading docs.

I used to hate the AWS docs, now I use Azure and I hate that so much more. At least AWS had loads of (bad) docs that you could string together to figure out how to do something. With Azure, there's just no docs (except for bad videos), and they literally tell you (at the top of every page) that you can do this with AI (I know I can do it with AI, but I'd prefer if I could read your docs to make sure the machine isn't doing something dumb).

My expectation is that I'll end up on GCP in a few years, and that will be bad in hilariously different ways.


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alasdair_today at 3:04 PM

GCP is famous for having two ways to do everything: the undocumented way and the deprecated way. You choose.

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abofhtoday at 2:44 PM

Yes, gcp has volumes of available accurate documentation, but it's almost entirely incomprehensible and bizarrely undiscoverable by search

creamyhorrortoday at 3:38 PM

Yep, if someone thinks AWS docs are rough, wait till they try Azure docs!