[Cpoll]

Search in the UI is my particular bane.

Sometimes it works great (searching for EC2 instances).

Sometimes you need to construct restricted search queries (slightly aided by a slow dropdown auto-complete) that look like `Name: Begins With: /blah/` (ParameterStore).

Sometimes search is client-side, and only searches the page you're currently on (ECR, I think? I can't remember what does this). I think in this case it's sometimes form just following the limited functionality of the API.

I have a _lot_ of scripts that are just ways to extract data quicker than I can in the UI.

[__david__]

IoT is one of those client side searches. And worse, it's an endless scrolling page, so to do the search proper you have to repeatedly scroll down until you've loaded all the data (20 or more pages on our infra), then scroll back to the top and search. It's so bad I don't even know what to say—it's like no one ever tried to use it.

[Schweigi]

The search is definitely one of the biggest pain points when using the UI. I can only hope someone makes an executive decision and forces every service team to offer a proper search (more than prefix, same page search).

I assume the bad search functionality happens because the service teams don’t really use their own service with more than some demo resources.