Ask HN: AWS Mocking culture amongst multi-cloud engineers

In my last three jobs I've been working amongst multiple teams supporting mainly AWS, Azure and GCP clouds.

I noticed that AWS teams usually like to mock other clouds when people ask about issues their encounter.

One of the examples would be that AWS experienced engineer has been tasked to perform something on Azure platform and when they don't succeed they usually comment it with "On AWS it just works" or "we don't have the need to do THAT on AWS".

I'm starting to think most of AWS engineers would be so ego/aws-centric they will not accept that other platforms are NOT AWS and things are being done differently there as well as they have their own pros/cons.

I haven't noticed this type of mockery/commentary in GCP or Azure engineers so I was wondering if anyone else has experienced it.

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api 4y ago ↗

They’re all monstrously overpriced, especially for bandwidth. AWS is the worst.

curiosone 4y ago ↗

Well, taking the actual differences aside as all platforms have their own pros/cons. Once the platform has been chosen for whatever reasons. The question is, do other cloud engineers tend to simply try helping out and resolve the problem or just throw comments about one or the other being better.

I understand the arguments at design level where the task is to choose the right platform for the job.

What I'm seeing is that AWS engineers tend to have that "AWS is the best of the best of the best SIR" attitude like we've seen in one of the scenes of Men in Black.