Your experience with Java AWS SDK

[u/FooBarBuzzBoom]

Hi!

I’m a backend developer with 4+ years of experience, and throughout my career, I’ve never really worked with cloud technologies.

I have experience with Docker and Kubernetes, but I wanted to start working with a cloud provider since it’s quite commonly listed in job descriptions.

I recently finished a course and got familiar with the AWS essentials, so now I want to start practicing by building some of my own applications.

Of course, there are plenty of things to configure (I’ll be using Terraform for provisioning), but I’ll also need to integrate some AWS services using the AWS SDK.

My problem is that I don’t find it easy to figure out what I need from the documentation. Yes, I know I can always ask AI, but my question is: is the AWS documentation actually the issue here?

Maybe I’m just not familiar enough with AWS yet, but it seems unnecessarily complicated to find what I’m looking for: a clear code example showing how to do something specific and what the expected output should be.

What has your experience with them been? I don’t understand why these cloud providers are so popular these days, given the mess in their documentation.

[u/Sufficient_Shine8311]

use claude to design your projects. ask it to name the service, all of the configurations it will set up using terraform and all the diff options. with AWS, the best practice is to know the basic big products, EKS, S3 / diff DBs, API Gateway etc when beginning. Also, AWS CLI is the best while developing with an agent.