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by deepspace 7 days ago
Neat, but this feels to me like buying a single-use kitchen gadget. Yes, the console does not have everything neatly together like this, but it can manage everything across all AWS services.

Having to deal with a separate (electron) app for every AWS service would be a nightmare.

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The cross cutting concerns with ECS + ALB + ASGs + Capacity providers + target groups + EC2 instances + launch templates means that ECS is somewhat central to the larger context of your hosted system. I really like ECS, but AWS have done a poor job of presenting all the linked parts stemming from ECS that this app actually tries to solve. Yes, it wraps several services to achieve this because it has to, but ECS is central enough that having an app like this to show things in a more contextualized way I think can be extremely useful.
Do one thing and do it well, right?
Define "one". If AWS is a single service, then this tool does 1/100 things.
No one would classify AWS as a single service. The name is literally "Amazon Web Services".
This isnt built with electron, it's built with Rust and React using Tauri