While this is true, a manager really shouldn't be giving an inexperienced dev enough rope to hang himself with.

Totally agree with you on this one, it's the role of specialized platform teams + managers to make sure devs have the tools they need while also accounting for their skill level(s).

Not everyone has access to a specialized platform team or technical manager; very often it is a solo (or small group of) devs just trying to Get Stuff Done

That just can’t work for most companies.

Inexperienced devs/admins are always a risk when it comes to infra. There isn't much difference between a misconfigured mysql test user and a freely accessible S3 bucket. One might be more modern then the other, but thats about it. Only real difference is that with cloud infra, junior employees can do more harm then they used to be able to do with local infra, because stuff has grown since.

Part of this is a consequence of Amazon's hesitance towards shutting down old features. They are getting better at this lately, but S3 remains an example of a system with too many ways of doing things simply because they don't want to take the step of eliminating legacy functionality.

Introduce S4 [1] with a reduced set of configuration options and nudge customers into using it instead. Then eventually make it the default and encourage migrations.

[1] I know the name doesn't make sense.

Super Simple Storage Service

Simple Secure Storage Service

> one of the most simple cloud infra services

Maybe compared to other AWS offerings S3 is a simple service. But on the scale of all services it's incredibly complex. There is no shortage of providers offering cloud storage that's actually easy to set up, and intuitive to set up correctly