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I really wish someone would re-write all of AWS documentation and make everything simpler to understand. I'd like to use AWS but the documentation as-is would take hours to read.

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It's not everything - just an overview - but you might find this helpful: https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english

Has this been edited since it was originally posted? I recall reading something about setting money on fire in the one version back in the day...

Good spot - see Direct Connect in the archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150910211935/https://www.exped...

I preferred the original version :)

AWS docs, at least with S3, are pretty rigorous which makes implementing an S3 client directly from the documentation possible.

I'm sure they expect you to use a client written in your language of choice, not actually send queries to the API manually.

Within each SDK, I find their API relatively easy to use. Each method is pretty well documented (certainly not perfectly).

For the most part they are created via code generation (to my knowledge), which while not necessarily making for the best user-friendly API (Although it's not bad), does make it fairly consistent in terms of groking how to accomplish automating a task.

I thought the documentation is pretty well written and comprehensive. Probably the reason why it appears complicated is just because of the nature (and amount) of their services.

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