> I don't think I've ever seen "fun" and "aws console" used in the same sentence before.
To each their own, but the ability to deploy seemingly endless amounts of computing power to do whatever I want, with the click of my mouse, is something I could only dream of as a kid.
I had that kid-like wonder at a recent project where I had to re-architect an Amazon-hosted website for a customer.
It took me back to that childhood experience of playing with Lego. Everything just "snaps together", and a lot of things that ought to be difficult were shockingly easy.
Mid-way through the project the customer apologised because they forgot to mention that they needed geo-redundancy for every layer, including the database.
It was a checkbox on AWS Aurora. A literal checkbox. I pressed it. There was a progress notification and then it was done. Just like that. A distributed cluster.
I know what's involved, it's not like I haven't built SQL Server clusters dozens of times before, I've even scripted the process before. But it's kind of magic to see it condensed down to a the absolutely most trivial true/false button that it could possibly be.
To each their own, but the ability to deploy seemingly endless amounts of computing power to do whatever I want, with the click of my mouse, is something I could only dream of as a kid.