I think one big decision AWS could have taken earlier is that of declarative medium for cloud resources. Cloud formation is not human friendly as JSON or YAML. Problem with terraform has been that it had to keep track of the state separately which AWS already had (like what resources have been provisioned against a particular account number) in their databases and further more, I NEVER liked HCL, it never made sense to me.
Otherwise, some things that are good about AWS are as under:
1. IAM is I think good, logical and granular enough.
2. Separation of compute and storage in EC2 is very good.
3. S3 is amazing.
4. SQS is heavily underrated.
5. RDS is expensive but too good. I do not know how to go about 1 TB+ database size with daily backups without RDS. Similar ZFS setup with file system snapshots is complicated.
Not good things about AWS:
1. Super expensive. About 10 times. With zero support.
2. Current geopolitical environment would suggest getting off AWS if you are not a US company. The fascist idiots at the helm of affairs have lower IQ than the big void's average temperature in outer space.
Otherwise, some things that are good about AWS are as under:
1. IAM is I think good, logical and granular enough.
2. Separation of compute and storage in EC2 is very good.
3. S3 is amazing.
4. SQS is heavily underrated.
5. RDS is expensive but too good. I do not know how to go about 1 TB+ database size with daily backups without RDS. Similar ZFS setup with file system snapshots is complicated.
Not good things about AWS:
1. Super expensive. About 10 times. With zero support.
2. Current geopolitical environment would suggest getting off AWS if you are not a US company. The fascist idiots at the helm of affairs have lower IQ than the big void's average temperature in outer space.
EDIT: Typo + Formatting