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It's been a while I tried it but I really like that the UI doesn't "cheat" with internal apis.

Sure the UI is horrendous, I'm not going to defend it but you can open the web inspector, see what it's doing and use the exact same apis in your code. I can't say that for AWS.

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Isn't that the norm nowadays? I know some early AWS products had logic just for the console, but I also know that that was seen as a huge mistake. I assumed that was industry wide.

Seems like it’s still a bit of an issue. This [1] is rather a long read, but definitely worth it if you are interested in platforms.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

That is a pretty old rant, at this point. Amusingly, google+ doesn't event exist anymore. :D

Maybe I'm odd, but even having more experience with AWS, and even with the UI on AWS being superior, Azure's jargon and organization seems easier to learn than AWS.

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