[twistedpair]

Honestly this is when most folks move to using their own dashboards, metrics, and tooling. The AWS GUIs were designed for small to moderate use cases.

You don't peer into a bucket with a billion objects and ask for a complete listing, or accounting of bytes. There are tools and APIs for that.

That's what I do with my thousands of buckets and billions of files (dashboards).

[scapecast]

It's also the reason why some AWS product teams have started acquiring IDE- or CLI-type of start-ups. They don't want to be boxed in by the constraints of the AWS Console - which is run by a central team. For example, the Redshift team bought DataRow.

Disclosure, co-founder here, we're building one of those CLIs. We started as an internal project at D2iQ (my co-founder Lukas commented further up), with tooling to collect an inventory of AWS resources and be able to search it easily.

[wizwit999]

Product teams don't do acquisitions. And thats not why that acquisition happened.