It's been a while since I used AWS, is premium documentation a thing now? Monetizing documentation just seens so sleazy.
But I don't think sleazy is the right term for hitting yourself in confusion.
Maybe moronic fits better?
Or is everyone that disagrees with you simply not seeing the Objective Truth of which you are aware and they are not?
Sheesh.
Thus it’s easy to distinguish the two by asking in-depth questions. IE it’s fast! How fast?
I mean, if I'm doing a project with one other person, we can use logic to get to the best solution, but if it's three people in a group or more, then the most charismatic person becomes the leader, and the rest does whatever the leader wants, even if they make bad calls.
The non-blind suggestion usually has reasons on why you want cloud services, why AWS is the right choice over many other suppliers of cloud, and some cost analysis of what it would cost vs doing nothing or why you can't do nothing.
Not going to spell out a design meeting if your first instinct is an ad hominem.
Sheesh
The linked article is from “AWS re:Post” which is the equivalent of a “support forum” where you can ask questions and get crowdsourced answers from either other AWS users, or from AWS employees/AWS support themselves. Some of these questions are so popular that they show up in search results and so might be treated as documentation.
It’s dumb, but not uncommon in my experience for such “support forums” to be behind a paywall.
But otherwise it seems more like an insult.
Yeah, no. I have to strongly disagree with this.
AWS's documentation about operating AWSs products and services I assume are correct and accurate.
If I follow their guides and end up breaking something because it turns out they forgot to tell me about something important, I would consider that a breach of warranty.
The only reason I can think of where documentation should be behind a pay/auth-wall is if it was generated specifically for your circumstances as part of some kind of solutions architecture or technical support process.
That’s exactly what this is, actually. These aren’t the AWS docs. The linked site is the AWS support forums in which AWS employees, AWS support and/or other known contributors from the AWS community will give you personalized responses to questions you have.
Some of these questions are more generic, and so aren’t personalized, but they’re still the result of a question-and-answer on the forum.
I disagree that these are specific enough to warrant being private. I'm thinking more along the lines of your very specific resources/application/architecture.
This is more like a curated version of Stack Overflow.
And I don't believe you can download the Z-Wave specification without paying a membership.
I'll also name and shame iCIMS. Some API docs are public but then link to other pages that are blocked (restricted to direct customers or temporary access by contractors) for no good reason and with no obvious pattern.