How is AWS console so broken?

1 points by anuptalwalkar 44 days ago | 3 comments

A small rant, after painful user experience. I admit I visited it after a while spending on GCP space, but the console looks like it is either not maintained at all, or individual teams just throwing stuff at it and causing a mess.

My simple workflow - I want to copy millions of objects from one bucket in us-east-1 to us-west-1

1. I can kick off the replication rule. but oh wait, there is no monitoring, unless you select it in edit rules. Even then, the experience is broken and I have now no idea if anything is happening in the background.

2. There is batch operation. It doesn't work. If I select source region for aws console, I can't see destination region bucket to execute copy batch. Vice-a-versa, if I select destination region, I can't select any buckets from the source region.

I can perhaps use a CLI, which is a long list of instructions to follow and execute without pulling my hair out.

I asked claude code to just figure out out to create a job and execute it and tell me the state. It didn't even hesitate.

AWSSucks 43 days ago |

I took our whole team off AWS recently due to the UX being so poor we cannot effectively do our jobs.

To lose customers over UX is very sad - something so easily and cheaply solved in 1 or 2 junior hires.

They may have the absolute worst authentication experience the Internet has ever seen. Just logging into the thing is an incredible chore.

paaloeye 44 days ago |

Try Google Cloud Console in Safari. Pretty much Oxford dictionary definition of _pain_.

anuptalwalkar 44 days ago | |

I hear you. It at least works in chrome, being Google after all.

I would imagine someone would let gemini or whatever aws is using to run wild and say 'fix everything in the UI'. It wouldn't be the worst idea of the year.