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Comment by skrebbel | Hacker News Reader

I've always wondered about this strategy. I'm a developer and a business owner. I'm in AWS's core target demographic. I know three things about AWS:

    - Their products have weird names
    - Their web console has horrible UX
    - The lie about uptime and server status

I'm not looking to switch to AWS soon.

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I take it you have never used Azure's UI? AWS is much better. I can't comment on Google Cloud because I've never used it.

Some of the AWS UX is okay but the parameter store UX for the web console is some of the worst I've seen. It's difficult to navigate and paginate, and the search function is barely worth using. It would be amazing if they had fuzzy search on the names.

I do agree that the CloudWatch console search is like this, where you need to type out the entire string from the beginning to get it to match. But for the CloudFormation and Lambda consoles, I can just type a piece of the string I'm trying to find and all matching will just show up.

The UX is a bit poor and there are long standing issues like the S3 console timeout bug and the SWF console not obeying any known law of web design but serious teams don't really use the console, they use tools like Terraform, CloudFront or they roll their own automation.

I use the AWS APIs almost every day but probably log in once a week or so.

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