Update X-Ray guide to better compare Datadog APM & AWS X-Ray #29549
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…d AWS X-Ray Restructured the guide to help users decide when to use Datadog APM vs AWS X-Ray for serverless tracing. Added comprehensive comparison sections covering limitations, advantages, and use cases for both solutions. Moved technical setup instructions to the end while maintaining all existing functionality. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What does this PR do? What is the motivation?
As we shift our focus away from the X-Ray Converter and towards the Lambda Extension and L2T, we wanted a blog post or some type of doc comparing Datadog APM and AWS X-Ray
After all, the title to the guide from the other page says "Decide When to Use Datadog APM and AWS X-Ray"
We have another integration page for X-Ray that's better maintained with the same setup instructions so I'm opting to link to that instead of repeating.
This will remove the per-runtime x-ray client libraries instructions but those aren't very valuable anyway IMO. We're just repeating info from AWS for Node and Python. We simply link to aws docs for the other runtimes anyway
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I’m curious about the overall message we're conveying, should we should “less harsh” in the comparison to AWS X-Ray?
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