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This is the aws console? Like EC2 and S3? With crap design and scrolling and refresh delays and tons of bugs?

The OLD one was better (which I think was mostly server side rendering) is still better than the new one that you're basically forced to use.

It really says something that when you complain about it, the only good response is "well you're not supposed to use it, you're supposed to use something else like terraform or the API (don't get me started) or ansible".

I REALLY hope this means they are dumping it for another rebuild, and the open sourcing is a fig leaf to the people that worked hard on the current redesign.

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"The old UI was better" should be a bus people who say it get on and that bus should drive off into the sunset so the rest of us never have to hear such a boring take ever again.

Alternate take, the people who keep mucking up the perfectly fine UI[1] that I've been using for years should get on that bus, so the rest of us never have to worry about waking up and everything is in a different place for absolutely no reason.

[1] In general, I mean - I actually don't use AWS.

As someone who actually does use AWS, it was not "perfectly fine". Far from it, in fact.

The biggest benefit from this redesign is the very clear insight into billing you now get. Right on the main page, you see your billing breakdown, both from a "here's what you've spent this much" and "here's your projected spend" perspective.

That, alone, was huge, and required a new UI to display that information cleanly and clearly.

Cognito's UI is now substantially better, as well. Before it was very different from the rest of the site and therefore unintuitive, and it's now matching.

There are other examples, but suffice it to say the folks claiming the "old UI was better!" are not doing so from any place of reasonability.

So yes, can all of the folks who fear change please hop on whatever mode of transportation you prefer, and leave those of us who understand that progress is, generally, good alone?

The basic EC2 is definitively not better. If anything, they wasted a massive amount of effort moving to a new framework rather than just improving the old UI.

Oh, cost savings on the front page? Yes that must have been IMPOSSIBLE in the old UI framework.

Was the old UI perfect? Hell no. What is amazing with the redesign is how little usability boost it provides, and how much aggravation and bugs it has. Very serious bugs, like lists of infrastructure changing under your cursor just as you're about to do something.

There are still bad bugs with screen refreshes that don't remember search criteria.

Text inputs not allowing certain characters to be inputted, or not working at all.

You'd think a redesign would improve readability, flow, speed, and capability, and that a 60 billion dollar a year enterprise held up as the gold standard of industry IT could reengineer their core UIs effectively.

Totally agree. The old UI was much better. I think they ignored who uses the console. If I’m trying to load a UI with thousands of resources server side rendering is much faster. The new UI is frustrating. Luckily we mostly use cdk for terraform and don’t have to use the console much.

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