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by freehunter 2297 days ago
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.
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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.
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.
The console already shows the five most recently used components when you log in.
Yet somehow it always seems to forget.