Maybe GCP, Azure and AWS could pull together the text to train a language model to tell us how to deal with their fucking stupid UIs and arcane terminology. I dread having to use their cloud portals. How do you find a VM by IP address in Azure? that kind of thing.
First, their UI and UX are very different. Azure is by far the worst (as in pretty much all categories) - even their docs suck, with random broken links (even the links to switch the language of the exemple code) and very weird naming schemes, let alone the actual cloud UI. GCP and AWS are quite decent (for AWS you need to know a bit about how they organise things or use the search, but still).
> How do you find a VM by IP address in Azure?
The point is that you probably don't need to/shouldn't. IPs are ephemeral, don't matter and can easily change, and shouldn't be used for anything like identity.
> The point is that you probably don't need to/shouldn't. IPs are ephemeral, don't matter and can easily change, and shouldn't be used for anything like identity.
Hi, the ip 1.2.3.4 seems to be one of our VMs, and it's relaying spam. Which vm is it?
AWS's UI varies dramatically by product, which is both part of the problem with it (lack of a coherent design language leads to confusion) and makes it hard to talk about AWS's UI. Everyone has a different opinion based on which subset of tools they use.
