[steve_adams_86]

I agree that DO is awesome. I'd argue though that they can make a better UI because they offer less. Everything is a littler simpler. It would be hard to condense AWS into a similar type of interface.

Having said that, DO is enough for virtually everything I've ever worked on, and the user experience and price are so much better. They're a clear winner for almost everything I do these days.

[axaxs]

I agree but that's part of the charm to me. I only use what 4 or 5 things in AWS, but each login is information overload. Having to Ctrl F what you are looking for is not an ideal experience.

Whether a conscious decision or not, I think offering what the 80ish percent (just a guess) actually use, and streamlining it, is the right decision.

[freehunter]

AWS could really use a dashboard where you can pick the components you want to see and only those show up. If I only use S3 and EC2 I shouldn’t have to search for those two products every time I log in.

[axaxs]

This is what I don't understand. AMZ is one of the richest companies ever, but everyone agrees their AWS interface is terrible. It looks like an engineer wrote it 20 years ago and nobody ever bothered to refactor it. Just showing what you're actually using by default would be a 1000% improvement. I don't even have admin access at my current company, quit showing me things I won't and can't use.

[jrockway]

Look at Amazon.com. Same deal. Nobody wants to be the person that redesigns the UI and sees sales drop off by 0.001%. I think they're afraid to touch what made them #1, even if it's objectively terrible.

[scarface74]

The console already shows the five most recently used components when you log in.

[freehunter]

Yet somehow it always seems to forget.