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I disagree on the documentation bit. I think AWS's docs are really good overall. You have the services FAQs for high level overview + AWS Docs to get deep in to the weeds.

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They are good in some areas, but certainly not good in others. Eg when it comes to how aws codebuild/deploy and how ECS service/instance/task roles interact.

It seems AWS teams are very vertical, leading to more complex cross services interaction being badly documented, as it's "nobody" who truly owns it?

Yes, their organizational structure and the lack of trust that sometimes flares up between teams really shows in the integration. Which is, of course, exactly the level where most customers live. IAM used to be exactly that but they centralized that cross-cutting concern and it's improved a lot.

Every time I have to read some AWS docs I get blinded by enterprise buzzwording and just want to run away...

You learn to avoid those pages. Besides, there are solid reference pages behind. I can't say the same for Azure.

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