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Re:AWS Tools Suck by Hamuko on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:16AM (#29590684)
I don't find the console slow, but I find it pretty stupid. There are some things that I can't do via the console, only via the API, and some stuff just doesn't make sense. Like why does AWS WAF have its own region selection (that always defaults to us-east-1) separate from the console region selection?
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Re:AWS Tools Suck by tyingq on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:32AM (#29590822)
>Like why does AWS WAF have its own region selection

Assuming you're talking about WAFv2, it seems that's because they chose to have a single set of api endpoints instead of regional-based endpoints. And that the CLI --region option is really only equipped to swap endpoints.

Doesn't explain why they chose that path though.

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Re:AWS Tools Suck by Hamuko on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:56AM (#29593903)
I think even WAF v1 had stupid region selections on the console.
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