Ask HN: Why do people hate on the AWS developer console?

Funny, I was wondering the same thing. I use the AWS console all the time and have to scratch my head when people say how horrific it is.

I presume it's because some people just enjoy criticizing stuff. :)

If you really hate it and just need to turn things on/off and get a view across your environment then take a look at www.parkmycloud.com

Much more pleasing UI and can save you literally thousands....

Well that was a little shameless.

They hate on it because real DevOps people use Ansible/Chef/Puppet/OpenStack to avoid repetitive operations of provisioning servers and just use it for ad-hoc monitoring.

Hmm, makes sense.