Just curious, have you ever used AWS?
If you’re spending a lot of time in the UI, you’re doing it wrong.
I'll never forget getting told off by the S3 PM at Reinvent because I had the nerve to ask for global sort in the S3 file browser. "Do it yourself!" he said... like, I need to find one file, sorted by date, about once every other month. You want me to learn the CLI and write a custom script for THAT?! Un-effing-believable
They have a bajillion highly-paid programmers (and enough infra to power God himself) and yet one basic feature present pretty much elsewhere in both the online and offline worlds is too much to ask
It would amount to retrieving everything from the S3 conceptual “index database” and doing a non optimized sort when everything is architected to search based on the key and a key prefix.
It’s far more efficient to let the client get a subset by prefix (ie “folder”) and sort/filter by other meta data client side.
Why bother giving me a file browser if I'm supposedly not supposed to be browsing files?
Besides the S3 cli commands are some of the most intuitive.
S3 is not a file system though and is a big blob of objects with tags. I think the worse thing AWS ever did was present S3 as a file system in the web console.
Like if you don't want me using something, don't give it to me. Users gonna use
Seriously though that attitude is antithetical to the spirit of computer nerditry. Who do they think they are telling me what I can and cannot use?
They end up duplicating their on prem architecture and processes - costing companies more and not knowing how to automate and increase efficiency.
As far as “powerful GUIs”, one of the earliest game changers for the Mac that helped Apple survive during the dark ages were all of the custom workflows that publishers had created using AppleScript. It wasn’t the better GUI back in the day.
I don't get Azure, it's UX is very meh, though at least faster than AWS.