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They still have plenty of time to cripple their UI though

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What? The AWS UI is much better than that slow ever-slowing-progress-bars RandomError throwing Azure portal.

Just because there are worse things doesn’t mean the current interface doesn’t suck

It does kinda mean that if everything else is worse.

That's funny - I primarily have used Azure but whenever I drop into AWS I feel like it's actively punishing me for trying to use the UI.

Azure UI is awful for stuff like hitting the back button and reliably going back, or even for a structured view of a resource. Try using AKS, and select any given pod or node and the little "path" disappears and you can't reliably go back to the main cluster without hitting the back button that usually does not work. This is also true for most Azure resources, though azureml is oddly very nice to use, UI wise. For some weird reasons, searching in some lists only works with exact prefixes, meaning that you better have the full, correct name of the thing you're looking for.

Azure is fine to display surface level information, but it is atrocious when it comes to actually doing stuff or finding details. AWS, and the new UI in particular imo, is a breeze in comparison. But then again, my favorite cloud UI is GCP so maybe I'm just weird like that :)

I haven't worked with AKS, but in Azure if you want to go back to the previous "parent" resource it's usually pretty simple, you just scroll to the left. It's a bit strange, but once you get use to it you learn to stop using the back button.

AWS UI is awful compared to Azure. At least in Azure I can quickly search across regions and subscriptions for cloud resources.

Hard Disagree! Azure Portal is the most clear Cloud UI out there. From the Icons to the Blade/Journey UX scrolling sideways.

Why would you ever want to use the UI for, other than troubleshooting?! No matter the cloud provider in question, everything should be done through Terraform or another provisioning platform.

Seriously, doing stuff manually on any hosting provider has become a crimson red flag for me. Even at home for my private stuff, I have ansible scripts for every piece of infrastructure. No more manually set up raspberrys or what ever.

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