Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer ex... by tdfirth on Sunday April 18, 2021 @04:40PM (#26856143)

This made me laugh, thanks.

If I'm honest, I do find AWS in general fairly high friction at times but it's way better than renting servers directly I think.

It's the only cloud provider I've really worked with to be honest though (other than a few experiments), maybe some others are much better in this regard?

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer ex... by mattmanser on Sunday April 18, 2021 @05:16PM (#26856445)

For me the Azure management portal is frustratingly slow, AWS is at least moderately responsive in comparison. I've not tried the Google stuff for years, but in my experience everything they do is ridiculously overcomplicated.

I don't really get where you're coming from on renting servers directly, using AWS is far more expensive if you actually need a server for a while.

Though I do admit being able to fire up a server for a couple of hours and then delete it is pretty awesome.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer ex... by tdfirth on Sunday April 18, 2021 @05:32PM (#26856599)

I wasn't referring to cost as, yes, it's definitely cheaper to just rent some servers.

The operational overhead of provisioning them, configuring them (and so on) is really difficult for a lot of teams though.

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