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I tried to post this yesterday, but Imgur was having issues...

Went off to England for a few weeks. I scheduled slots in our itinerary for visits to the British Motor Museum in Gaydon and the MG Car Club in Abingdon.

The BMM in Gaydon is definitely worth a visit if you're into the history of LBCs and their larger cousins. There was a nicely restored MGB GT in the lot as we walked in. That was a good sign. Lots of cars from all marques, including several famous ones (e.g. QEII's well-used Range Rover). The museum was having a meetup of Aston Martin owners in the parking lot, so there were plenty of extra things to look at. Some done up Bond-style with prop rocket launchers and machine guns.

There is trick photo in there, for those of you hoopy froods that know where your towels are. Also, one of the sign of a pub that existed for years in Abingdon until they changed the name.

The next day, we stopped at the MG Car Club in Abingdon. It's off the beaten path, so definitely suggest to call ahead if you want to visit. There isn't a lot to see, to be honest, but it's a fun 30-minute stop. What was once one of the factory buildings is next door and converted into apartments. Andy from the MGCC gave a short tour and diplomatically explained that they are there for all MG owners, not just those made in Abingdon. Sadly, we were in town on a Monday, so the County Hall Museum was not open.

Slightly off-topic, but the day we went to Kenilworth castle, there was a meeting of Alvis owners on the castle grounds. I had never heard of the marque before, but they were beautiful. I included a shot of one of the cars, but I have more, if there is interest. They're not exactly "little" British cars, but no larger than a TD or Magnette.

UPDATE: To save everyone reading the full transcript, I'll put this update on top...

I got tired of the excuses from AWS support. I'm not convinced the respondents were actually humans. If they are, they should be ashamed. Multiple replies of rewording the phrase "please be patient". I was being patient, I wasn't demanding results every day. But after 4 weeks, I can't keep waiting.

I set up an account on GCP and had my project working, with SSL, load balancing, CDN, and domain, in less than 3 hours. I'll have to mentally map the service names in AWS to those in GCP, but the concepts are similar enough. I have to keep the AWS account open for another 2 months until I can transfer the domain into some other registrar. I have a calendar reminder to turn off paid support on July 25.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm just stunned that the platform I've used for 10+ years has turned to utter shit.

I created a new account on June 5 and set up credit card billing for pay-as-you-go, with a backup card. I verified my email account at that time. This is for a project that I will be handing off to the client when it's completed, so I need a new account, rather than the one I use for projects that I maintain.

After setting up part of the stack, I needed to create a CloudFront distribution. I got an error that I couldn't create one and the error message said I needed to verify my account. Nothing I could find in the docs or web searches indicated how I kicked off this process. So, I submitted a support request.

Three days later, we left on holiday with no response. When I returned after 12 days, I still no response. I finally signed up for the trial support plan and resubmitted the request. I got a response in less than a day that there is an internal review process for creating CF distributions. That was on June 25th. I still cannot create a CF distro on July 1.

I have been patient with the support people, but nothing has come of this. Always "it takes time, please be patient". We're going on to a month now and my patience is getting thin. I have the tech stack working, but I need CF to move on to the next phase. I have to show the project to the client in late July to get paid.

Similarly, I tried to register the domain for the project and was given a generic error that I couldn't register domains. This struck me as odd as I did this exact same procedure about 2 years ago for another client. So, I registered the domain in my personal account, knowing I could transfer it after a few weeks.

I'm wondering what has changed in the new account provisioning process since the last time I went through this. Whatever it is, it clearly needs better documentation and the process needs support in the console to get the account wherever it needs to be.

Any suggestions appreciated. Even ones that suggest switching to Azure or GCP (shudder), although I'm not keen to do that.

A visit to the British Motor Museum and MGCC (gallery link inside)

Awaiting Cloudfront verification process for nearly a month