Ask HN: Things you like or dislike about using AWS

Re:Ask HN: Things you like or dislike about using AWS by officialchicken on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:41PM (#28560951)

UI is so bad that moving to terraform and the cli improved my productivity; TF in particular lowered my billing due to being able to clean up e.g. shutting down EC2 instances.

S3 is the only halfway usable service in the web - but only i you are doing something trivial like moving or copying files, not changing mime-type.

I really like DKIM setup for SES when using Route53

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Re:Ask HN: Things you like or dislike about using AWS by test777780 on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:58AM (#28563322)

When you mention the UI do you mean the WebConsole.

I would agree on that WebConsole is a little confusing when it comes to using it

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Re:Ask HN: Things you like or dislike about using AWS by officialchicken on Friday September 17, 2021 @12:29PM (#28567436)

I've some time to think about AWS issues. Yes, the WebConsole isn't just confusing - it's worse, it's near-useless. The redesign a couple years ago went from sorta-bad to extra white space awful requiring many extra clicks and scrolls - zero information density. Seventeen clicks to view graphs across 2 services. Another example are the emails - my AWS account is so old that I got one the other day about pre-VPC EC2 instances. A wall of text... with no action to take (since none were running). Finally - the biggest complaint - NO BILLING LIMITS

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