They're marketing page isn't super clear, but it's adding structure for a company's existing bug bashes. You set up a bug hung for your own developers on your own code.
Then why in the world make Internet Widgets, Pty users create yet another login on some random .aws property that (as very best I can tell) does not support any kind of SSO auth that an outside organization would use: GitHub/GitLab, IAM/Cognito nor OIDC/SAML
Re:AWS BugBust
by slownews45 on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:42PM
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Yeah, they are just trying to get devs to try their tooling. If tool was amazing, this would be great. But it's hardly the big exploitation people are describing here though it's a bit true that bug fixing is less fun for some and so is often ignored.
That said, other providers of this type of tooling might take some ideas from something like this.
If you want me to fix your bugs, pay me for it. Don't do this gamification nonsense.
Edit: apparently I did misunderstand how this works. It seems like the "Bugbusters" are just a company's normal developers. It still seems kinda dumb, but not as exploitative as I initially thought.