AWS decks are weird.
With a good chunk of board companies their shapes stay pretty consistent for the most part (like DLX when you buy an 8.25 or 8.5 you pretty much know what you're getting, because their shapes stay consistent. Same with Bakers, you know youre getting a rounder/pointier shape every time), with AWS the shapes vary too damn much. You could get an 8.5 deck with a mellow concave and rounder shape and dig it, then you buy another 8.5 from them again and it's super squared or pointy and steep and it feels like shit. There's little consistency really, at least from what I have seen. It's probably because they have their boards coming from like three different factories the last time I checked.