Cloud isn't hard.
The console is hard. There's a difference.
When I was studying for my AWS certification, I had ChatGPT open on one side and the AWS console on the other. Buttons everywhere. Menus inside menus. I couldn't find anything.
And I already had VMware and Azure experience.
Here's what nobody tells beginners:
Cloud is one of the simplest concepts in tech. You're renting someone else's computer. That's it. Storage, compute, networking... same stuff that's been around for decades. Just somewhere else.
The complexity isn't the cloud. It's the 200+ services and the assumption that you already know where everything is.
If you've ever stared at the AWS console wondering where the hell anything is, you're not dumb. The design is working against you.
What's one AWS service that took you way too long to understand?
