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You’ve never been part of a large organization have you? I have a little insight on how things like CodeCommit fall behind the competition. I worked at AWS in the Professional Services division. For a little over two years I was on a makeshift team maintaining and improving a very popular open source project in its niche. The project was hosted on “AWS Samples” ( https://github.com/aws-samples ). Once approved for th…
Hey fellow nerd. What project was it? I'm just curious if I came across it. I loved digging through the solutions repositories every quarter or so -- always something new and legitimately useful.
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> QLDB is an immutable database with allowing you to move back and forward in history and do live streaming of events etc with cryptographic verification built in. Which no one ever needed.
I used it for a subset of the features. Financial auditing and risk rating of destination banks for a particular network. Having an immutable database that was able to track fraud ratings, along with when exactly it occurred with the data available at the time was pretty cool. You could probably do it with other tools, but having it all in one product was nice. The cryptographic verification was helpful for legal def…
This was the perfect use case.
QLDB is the 'blockchain' businesses need. If you think of blockchain design choices as a set of dip switches, QLDB is the only one with all the correct settings for distributed business transaction value at scale.
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GitHub is good, yes? And Excel? And Notion? And Datadog? Lots of companies with excellent user friendly products. GCP is good in that regard too, minus IAM.
> GCP is good in that regard too, minus IAM. Care to elaborate why? IMO, GCP's IAM is years ahead of say AWS.
I second that. It's honestly simple. You assign roles (bundling of individual API call permissions) to cloud identities to resources.
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#84AWS had and probably still has the least interesting and immature way of investing in new products of any organization with the resources it has. Apart from the early wave of AWS products virtually everything has been a dud. There are so many random AWS products that are live but basically dead because Amazon/AWS never invested enough into them. Totally predictable outcome. I’m not sure why Bezos made Andy Jassy CEO.
Their business models has always been basically MS's strategy: Build out a massive sales and consulting organization, and then build products so that sales people can generate feature matrices to compare themselves with the competition. I'm certain they're keenly aware that they build shit products -- but they know that the majority of their customers are willing to pay a premium for a worse product if it means avoiding talking to finance and ensuring compliance for any external vendor.
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#85Every AWS feature requires some stupid aws cli call that gives you 12 hours of usage. So every day depending on how many products you're using, you have stupid shit to run. Was codecommit like that
No. You could either set it up with SSH or HTTPS credentials (managed via IAM Console or CLI) or use the AWS CLI's credential helper that managed everything automatically. The credential helper was a little weird to set up the first time I used it, but once I wrote up the instructions it was easy enough. Honestly I've never come across the '12 hours of usage' thing for AWS. But I only use CodeCommit, EC2, S3, SNS, SE…
The "12 hours" comes from IAM roles... some organizations don't allow folks to use IAM users for security reasons; many are now swapping to a setup like IAM Identity Center where they are granted temporary AWS credentials for an IAM role using an SSO provider.
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GitHub is good, yes? And Excel? And Notion? And Datadog? Lots of companies with excellent user friendly products. GCP is good in that regard too, minus IAM.
> GCP is good in that regard too, minus IAM. Care to elaborate why? IMO, GCP's IAM is years ahead of say AWS.
I don't think GCP IAM is approachable to the degree that it's other services are. (Better than AWS? Sure.)
A hundreds different "Admin" roles, a bunch of OAuth client stuff, other weird settings.
It's a fundamentally hard problem, but I don't think GCP solved it in an approachable/user-friendly way, which is the topic.