[thedevelopnik]

I’m not trying to be snarky here, would like an honest opinion: how do they win on UX? Are there specific things you like there?

I’ve used all three major clouds in production now and I dread using the AWS console. Or really any part of it, over Azure or GCP.

I’ve always thought of them as purely winning the “nobody got fired for…” mindshare thing despite having a thoroughly mediocre product.

[judge2020]

It either works great or barely depending on the service you're using - some AWS teams have dedicated dashboard teams, eg 'ec2 dashboard team' which solely focus on the dashboard experience, while others touch it as an afterthought.

I'm pretty sure something along the lines of this^ was posted on HN by a former AWS employee but I can't find it now.

[ufmace]

Their web console UIs vary widely by service. IMO, the UX for most of their simpler services, specifically SQS, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, are really easy to use and work nicely. If you want to start with a Docker image, send it to AWS, and have it get spun up and attached to a DNS, well that's a huge complex mess to get set up.

[Aeolun]

Unless you use something like Terraform or Pulumi, in which case it’s almost a one liner.

[XorNot]

The AWS default view feels more crisp for me, compared to the GCP one which feels very "floaty".

Their UI toolkit for that at least is on point.