AWS Usability Criticisms

The cluster focuses on debates about AWS's developer experience, console UX, complexity, and pain points like IAM, VPC, and support, with some defenses of its maturity and mentions of alternatives like Vantage.

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US AppConfig app.wut VPC CI AWS DevOps UI AM AI aws console services resource developer experience tooling lamp enterprise experimentation

Sample Comments

the_arun Mar 29, 2019 View on HN

Shouldn't AWS provide some tool like this to empower their customers?

TheAdamAndChe Dec 2, 2017 View on HN

What makes you think it's the UX of AWS services that is leading to these issues?

buboard Jul 30, 2019 View on HN

Yeah but AWS had better tooling

jamesblonde Jan 14, 2021 View on HN

My guess, from AWS experience, is that you're right. What specific pain points did you experience?

yomkippur Jul 22, 2022 View on HN

what aspect of AWS is inconvenient here? IAM and VPC stuff just requires extra knowledge but once you understand it its not a hinderance that would get me shopping for a replacement.

StratusBen Jan 3, 2021 View on HN

I am! I'm working on a product named Vantage: an alternative to the AWS console with a focus on developer experience and cost transparency.http://vantage.sh/

EE84M3i Apr 19, 2021 View on HN

For one offs, it's... Usable. But also it's not really the user's fault because AWS pushes it.

mdaniel Mar 9, 2025 View on HN

Congratulations, and how shameful for AWS not to meet developers where they are

diminish Feb 6, 2020 View on HN

AWS has become hard to grasp in full scale.

brianleroux Jan 31, 2022 View on HN

hello author here! personally find AWS extremely boring, very mature and stable. well known limits, and tradeoffs.