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Honestly this is when most folks move to using their own dashboards, metrics, and tooling. The AWS GUIs were designed for small to moderate use cases.

You don't peer into a bucket with a billion objects and ask for a complete listing, or accounting of bytes. There are tools and APIs for that.

That's what I do with my thousands of buckets and billions of files (dashboards).

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It's also the reason why some AWS product teams have started acquiring IDE- or CLI-type of start-ups. They don't want to be boxed in by the constraints of the AWS Console - which is run by a central team. For example, the Redshift team bought DataRow.

Disclosure, co-founder here, we're building one of those CLIs. We started as an internal project at D2iQ (my co-founder Lukas commented further up), with tooling to collect an inventory of AWS resources and be able to search it easily.

Product teams don't do acquisitions. And thats not why that acquisition happened.

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