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Re:AWS CodePipeline by twistedpair on Thursday July 09, 2015 @01:40PM (#9859448)
AWS sells an API. Serious users don't use the web console. Need to tend your cluster of 1000+ EC2 servers? The Web console will fail for that. The console fronts the API, just like the CLI tool.

AWS just builds the basic UI's to make it possible for people to do simple things. If you get deep into the weeds, you'll need to use the API directly, i.e. for installing an SSL cert on your CloudFront distribution, or launching a 2K node computing cluster.

If you don't like the UI, make your own and sell it to people. That has become a viable business model for various startups, or launch your own hosting company on top of EC2 like Heroku.

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Re:AWS CodePipeline by dchest on Thursday July 09, 2015 @06:38PM (#9861157)
If you don't like the UI, make your own and sell it to people.

Or ask Amazon to hire some good UI designers.

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Re:AWS CodePipeline by twistedpair on Thursday July 09, 2015 @09:10PM (#9861774)
Why? I'm amazed people expect a light and airy, responsive, material designed enterprise control panel that is redesigned yearly. These are backend tools. The UI works and was (1) not meant to be sexy and (2) not meant to push sales.

AWS is in a race to the bottom, cutting prices all the time. Hiring 50 UX devs to rewrite their web interfaces doesn't comport with Jeff's lean vision.

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Re:AWS CodePipeline by brianwawok on Thursday July 09, 2015 @09:55PM (#9861901)
You can both be pretty AND powerful. It is hard to do, but it can happen.
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Re:AWS CodePipeline by dchest on Friday July 10, 2015 @07:32PM (#9867647)
Looks like you are confusing UI designers with bullshit designers, who make such things "material design". It's not a beauty contest.
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