- Discussion (69 points, 1 month ago, 35 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572613
by IgorPartola
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- AWS has so many services at this point and it feels like so many of them overlap too. Seems like for a while they basically just took any open source project that was somewhat popular and offered a managed version of it. Plus there is a marketplace where others can offer services. The landscape is so vast it feels overwhelming to even try to get a basic layout.
For personal projects I end up avoiding AWS and instead prefer things like the Backblaze S3-compatible object storage, Vultr for VMs, and so on just to avoid the power user features that will only get in the way.
With that, I am curious how people who do not have an enterprise-size team to manage their AWS infrastructure navigate their offerings.
by vivzkestrel
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- AWS really needs to focus on simplifying their offerings for the next generation that is not very "computer savvy" for starters. You can host a website on ec2, you can also host it on elastic beanstalk, you can also host it on lightsail? See the problem? Instead of making us focus on how to adapt to your services, why not focus on how you can adapt to the customer needs. Introduce something called AWS WebServer or something and deprecate everything else except EC2. let people run their docker and lightsail and static hosting from this Amazon WebServer service. Do the same for databases. Why offer a separate Amazon Aurora postgres and an amazon RDS. Offer a service called Amazong DB and let the user decide if it is posgres, server oriented, serverless from there. Let it also handle dynamoDB
- Ah good old IoT Greengrass and Lambda that made me fail a job interview as it was my only AWS experience and the interviewers didn't belief it existed.
- Does the service list fit on a 4k monitor with these removed?
by topher200
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- This article is from mid-October.
- Anyone can predict what's going to happen with Amazon Q?
The only people that I know or have seen using Amazon Q are internal employees. Almost nothing on reddit.
- CodeCatalyst is pretty surprising on that list. Maybe it tried to do too much?
Also, the deprecation alert on the CodeCatalyst site is incorrect at the moment:
> Important Notice: Amazon CodeCatalyst is longer open to new customers starting on November 7, 2025
https://codecatalyst.aws/explore
- AWS has done its quarterly housecleaning / “Googling” of its services
Note: This is actually two quarters of Googling, because they were revising their process during Q3 and put deprecations on hold.
- Reminds me of the '168 AWS Services in 2 minutes' song
https://youtu.be/BtJAsvJOlhM
- Wasn't there a big post about this a few weeks ago?
by CobrastanJorji
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- Man, deprecating an IoT APIs isn't going to affect most folks, but the folks it does affect are gonna be in a fuckload of trouble.
by more_corn
1 subcomments
- Elastic beanstalk or GTFO
- I like how the article uses "Googling" as a verb meaning to shut down a service
by jjtheblunt
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- language rant: titles with assertions that "you" have or have not $whatever...they seem lazily worded.
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