AWS – WTF?

“I’ll just spin up a small demo server for the customer. Half an hour and I’m done,” I tell myself.

The customer uses Amazon Web Services (AWS), so naturally I go there first. Seven hours later, after battling network configs, instance limits, IPv6 surprises, and exchanging hundreds of messages with ChatGPT and Claude…

I would have pulled hair off my head, had I had anything to pull.

So I give up.

I switch to DigitalOcean. Spin up a droplet. Check three check boxes. Install the stack.

Half an hour later – demo is ready.

Sometimes the cloud just means fog.