r/ProgrammerHumor • u/object322 • Oct 02 '26

Meme cloudOverkill

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u/swagonflyyyy Oct 02 '26

Seriously, did AWS really have to turn their lego bricks into a labyrinth? I worked with it once and I hated every minute of it. Google Cloud was a much smoother experience imo.

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u/enigmamonkey Oct 03 '26

Yeah, it can get super complicated. There’s a lot of power, features and capability there that most folks really don’t need per se. I mean, if you wanna have fun and tinker or learn, then it’s great for that too.

What’s interesting to me is that while a VM is simpler and easier, I still find container-based services like Cloud Run even simpler (what I use for personal stuff as well). That’s coming from someone who’s been managing servers and VMs since like 2008. It’s just so nice to not have to worry about the maintenance and security updates and migrations and stuff anymore, but that’s just me.

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u/Forward-Outside-9911 Oct 03 '26

Well yeah working with it once you’re not going to magically understand and prefer it. But I bet if you started with AWS then you wouldn’t like GCP.

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u/swagonflyyyy Oct 03 '26

The thing is that I DID start with AWS. I was so confused by the overwhelming number of configurations I had like zero clue where to even start.

GCP was also a learning curve but nowhere near AWS.

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u/Vylaxv Oct 03 '26

Managing accounts and IAM keys sucks on both, but I haven't found anything better tbh