AWS for the Haters in 100 Seconds

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It's insane how large the collection of services is, almost as if they're building an A to Z for Web Services.

As someone who ate a $300 bill from leaving a p3.2xlarge instance on overnight I can testify that this video is 100% accurate

Suspicious how Fireship's output has increased so dramatically right around the time A.I. writing, voice replication, and art generation began to really take off. If the machines WERE going to take over, they'd probably start off with a channel that somewhat downplays their vast, world-ending potential...

I'm an AWS certified architect. I don't even bother with 99% of their services, because there are just too many to even bother with! The core services, like EC2, VPC, Route 53, RDS, etc, are worth learning, but the rest are just a mountain of sh**t of AWS-implementations of FOSS tools. You will experience serious vendor lock-in if you use all their stuff. Keep it simple and learn to manage some of your own stuff so you won't be forever beholden to Bezos.
And yes, I've had nightmares in the middle of the night that I left some EC2's on or that I've over- or under-bought enough RI's for our infrastructure. :[

You made me log into my AWS account to make sure it hasn’t been hacked

As a certified AWS Developer i can testify this is exactly how it is

It's crazy how cloud computing doesn't give you a big red stop button. This is especially useful for startups who may be "breaking shit" to get their velocity.

AWS is the software equivalent of Home Depot. Sure you've got access to build virtually anything but you really have to know what you are doing.

This is 100% correct. The reason for this is Amazon's god awful leadership principles, which requires shit to be built with 2 pizza teams. The result is 100+ "2 pizza" teams building products with overlapping scope and competing amongst themselves to win the next promotion. For some reason, product managers are used as UX designers, so every "design" looks like crap. Corporate shitshow on an epic scale.

Forgot to mention the ridiculously complicated authentication system just to make basic requests and the non existing documentation to perform basic tasks.

By far the most insidious aspect of all of this is just how DAMN HARD it is close CLOSE everything that is costing you money or delete your account. Absolutely anti-consumer.

As an AWS Architect, I can confirm this video is 100% accurate.

I took the "get hacked" personally, because it literally happened, but with 5000 EC2s, not 500
on 2 regions btw, it was fking "highly-available"

AWS was founded in 2006. Sadly, the AWS console still works like it's from 2006.

About 10 years ago I used the free year to host a game server for free, at first I was so scared to accidentally go over the free tier allowance but it went fine, but still I remember about being stressed about it

My favourite part of AWS S2 is individually selecting files inside of virtual folders and not letting me accidentally select all the files I need to download at once

Dang, if AWS adds a HelloWorld service, developers could get started with just a click and the entry of their credit card details.

I'm happy at this video's ability to tell both sides of the story so well! Yes, Amazon AWS is evil like all Amazon, but it's also revolutionary and there is a really good reason why everyone uses it. AWS just makes so much sense, GCP and Azure just pale in comparison! Also, it should be mentioned that the Amazon web console is very nice to use and actually kinda fast if you compare it to the dinosaurs that Google and Microsoft built.

Your video has made it to meme slack channel at AWS. We love it ❤

Watching this gave me war flashbacks when I got billed $4000+ on a small app that I was working on. I accidentally added 16TB of storage to my instance when I only intended to add 16GB. Yup, I'm an idiot.

Oh my god, not a single miss. Every single aws meme covered beautifully in 100 seconds. Fireship you absolute legend.

The "for the haters" serie is a must when choosing new technologies. ❤

Amazon's own web site is no different. I just saw a page that hasn't been redesigned in 20 years.

This is a very hard pill to swallow for the pro cloud crowd. The lock-in is real and the way out is difficult. Depending on what you're doing, you might be able to get away with only doing a few things (relatively) to achieve a somewhat agnostic architecture (like using an additional cloud service that bridges the gap for you, which exist but atm only for a few use-cases). Otherwise, Godspeed.

I was trying to figure out how to enable IPV6 on an EC2 instance, and I had to read through multiple help pages. I ended up killing IPV4 for the entire region we had servers on. It was like the sky fell in, and I had to beg AWS support to help me get out of the shit.

I like the "... For the haters" series soooo much!

He manage with his narrating to give you a lot of punchlines while you still wait for the punchline.

The inconsistency of aws is such a pain to learn. And when ever there is a problem it is always a problem with IAM

I just remembered something. I was sitting my comp sci lecture, right at the back, and a guy ahead of me had an AWS account up, which I assume was his. I shit you not, I watched him write some kind of email or support message about there being activity on his account that wasn't his. Little did I know this was my introduction to AWS.

I think what is interesting about AWS is how it illustrates Amazon’s approach to finding their next money maker vs. the way Apple approaches finding their next money maker. Apple prides themselves on saying no to most projects. Meanwhile Amazon is willing to place multiple bets, like they did with AWS. The AWS bet paid off big. Both approaches can work.

This video should be in their docs. Really helpful explainer.

As a systems admin who has been exiled away from civilization for the last seven or so years due to garbage health reasons and now trying to get back into the game Fireship has been a beautiful find.

congratulations man , your content never disappoint

I'm currently learning AWS on ACG and the majority of this video made me think i was wasting my money and time and sabotaging my future THANKS A LOT LOL

this was too funny as a cloud engineer who uses aws console great content man

I have never been a fan of AWS except for their Simple Email Service (because its the cheapest available). I am a big fan of Google Cloud though.

You’re on fire fireship! This is absolutely hilarious 👏👏

Fireship videos get better and better and I am here for it ❤

Just think of the cost of "lock in" being 2 or 3 platform engineers you don't need around to keep things from breaking. And, use one of those freed up roles to have someone dedicated to keeping costs low as possible. You'll be fine.

I AM SO GLAD I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE TO FEEL THIS WAY ABOUT AWS! THANK YOU!!!!!

After working with AWS for 2 years, I can confirm that this is completely true and I still have no fucking idea what I'm doing

it's impossible to find out what are the prices of their services, it's so convoluded that I decided to use another cloud provided that's more expensive but at least has a readable price list

Some years ago I was there, choosing our test cloud hosting platform. I was like looking a M6 nut in a 1.5L bottle filled with all kinds of screws, nuts and bolts.

In between Azure, AWS and GCP, which would you choose for your own company or use case? Do you have any favorite?

I am loving everything GPT is doing for me with AWS.

I literally worked for a project that had Amazon developing new AWS features on the go.

Very true! Best explanation I have ever seen about AWS in years :)

I am going to start learning AWS, this is the motivation I needed.

Everything about this video is agonizingly accurate

I like how he roasts AWS for 95% of the video and gives credit at the very last 5% 😅

I've been considering learning aws to get into tech for work finally. This video just helped make me more interested.

So, I was once considering AWS, but then I was going to calculate costs in advance, found it as opaque as vantablack, also found that I can't configure an upper spending limit and noped out immediately.

I made a simple website and hosted it on AWS. Then I got hacked and owed a few thousand dollars to Amazon, literally just like in the video lol. They let me go but made me sign an agreement about "shared responsibility" and about how it was my fault that I got hacked.

The absence of a "stop all" 🛑 button is a very annoying dark pattern. If you can calculate the bill, you know what services are running, and so, why can't kill the processes, evil AWS!!

The stuff at 1:15 is too real... I remember using AWS like 5 years ago and not only was it super difficult to shut down instances one by one, there was some really convoluted system that would just create new ones automatically and I remember it took hours with support because there was some shitty bug. AWS is sooo bad like for real

Saying what we're all thinking/experiencing. Spot on. 👌🏼 Still kills the competition, IMO tho.

Let's not forget that AWS (Amazon Web Services) contains a service called AWS (Amazon WorkSpaces) so when talking about AWS you don't know if it's the AWS in AWS or the overall umbrella of AWS.

I recently contacted their customer support and thought I had been hacked or something was wrong on their end because the region I was checking had no ec2 instances running in it yet the instance was hidden on some other random region I don't use. After it required me deleting 2 things but the team despite identifying was my fault just refunded me half of what I owed, I assume they didn't refund for the storage volume but just the instance

Also, don't setup the root account with MFA or you can risk being locked out forever

Terry A. Davis was truly a genius, I miss him.
🐐

This 'for the Haters' type videos should be a whole series

Feels like developing in a haunted amusement park. I don't think i could have said it any better 🤣

I'm starting at a company that uses AWS and... shit, thought this is some couple-of-years-old video and AWS has matured by now. Got nervous seeing this video was posted this week.

As someone who's bout to intern at Aws this summer, this video was a welcome surprise😂

I needed to see this video today. Thank you! You are the hero we all need.

Awesome explanation. I laughed a lot 🤣

The search part got me, too relatable.

What a bitter sweet video to watch. This and the Java Haters Club LOL. I use AWS all the time, it makes my life much easier and affordable but you have some seriously good points in this video. Same as your Java Haters video, I personally love the Java Language but hate the overhead that goes with it (ie JVM, Dependencies etc) but it's an amazing Language to code with and thats proof most languages adopting similar coding standards that follow Java. I use so many AWS services today to build highly scalable apps, and believe me, it saves me a ton of money and time to build these apps (unforunately the vendor lock-in issue does come at a cost 😬)

never used AWS, but from your Java for haters Video, I have to assume your are totally right again.

I love when Fireship gets angry mode. (I still remember the Javascript hater video lol) . Great work.

This is precisely why I deleted my AWS account! 😆
It was a big mistake of course, because they took my 2FA with it, and now I can't do anything on Amazon anymore. 😅

As an SDE at Amazon, I was traumatized for the first half😅

If this had been released tomorrow, I would've felt like an idiot for not understanding. But you didn't post on opposite/sarcasm day, so it makes me feel better for not understanding how to get started with AWS........ Also for the pit in my stomach when I received that "your leaving free tier, and will be charged" even though I had already cancelled everything

Just use lightsail like any other linode/digitalocean style service. Setup multi-auth and use SES for SMTP if needed.
Use anything else, and you are playing with fire. Hopefully you're enough of a cloud architect to set the billing safeguards.

Imagine what it would be if Amazon has an OSS spirit.

got my aws cloud practicioner badge like yesterday and i am really happy to see this

Caught me off guard in the first 5 seconds and had me chuckling. Nice.

Great video! Except for the last 10 seconds which sent me into a visceral rage

You are only one who can voice like this. Great stuff

These satires need their own (wonderful) channel, very enjoyable!

How is every video you drop an absolute banger.

I hope you can keep this up for the rest of the year. A video every 2 or 3 days.

"AWS glows in the dark; hit it with your car"
-God's chosen programmer

Congrats on 2M subs! I've been subscribed since you were at less than 500k and you deserve it!

Okay, good save at 2:12. I was wondering if I lost my grip on a troll level detection 🙂

only reason he put the last few seconds of real talk in there is to not get sued by aws

Sir please give your opinion on bca
And give road map for learning programming.

Very creative, man. Kudos

I've played with these AWS services: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and CloudFormation.
All 10/10, excellent, loved it. But I did not enjoy getting hacked and having russian ads hosted on my account.. xD

I guess this is supposed to be an april fools joke, but man I love it 😂

As someone who burned through a 100 bucks on azure by forgetting to shut down a storage server, it's all the same, you gotta be careful what you activate

Once we get everyone onto abstracted AWS services and away from EC2, there's no chance they can leave!!!. Oh no I said the quiet part loud.

The best description of AWS to date !

The end goal is to have one service for each JavaScript framework.

When you said AWS for haters, I thought you WEREN'T going to say bad things about it😂

A good solution is to build your own server

This hits hard after a $2600 opensearch bill 😬

🚀💯I have been waiting for this one! 😂I use AWS too but I kind of hate it!

these videos are incredibly entertaining