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I'm always amazed at how quickly Amazon pushes out new, useful features. I don't know if it's on their radar, but I think one of the most important things they

by ceejay 10y ago

I'm always amazed at how quickly Amazon pushes out new, useful features. I don't know if it's on their radar, but I think one of the most important things they could incorporate is the concept of a "project" within their console / apis. I'm not saying it's not possible to do similar things within the constructs already provided, but if I'm involved in 10 different projects (or managing them) maybe I want to be able to "toggle" between projects. This way (a) I can simply assign / unassign a person to/from a project without needing to worry about permissions at a different level. If I'm a lead programmer on a project I should simply have "project-level" permissions. (b) when I "toggle" to a project I immediately see project-related resources ONLY. No more need to scroll through 10's or maybe 100's of unrelated resources just to get to what I'm looking for.

dangoldin 10y ago
Agreed - that would be much appreciated. Very similar to the "Region" dropdown where you get limited to everything in a specific geography. I've started tagging resources and doing a filter/sort but it would be much nicer if I could just do it once during a session rather than filtering on each service's screen.
paulddraper 10y ago
Most use separate accounts for these purposes. You can connect them for credentials, billing, etc., but there's still some friction.
rvvind 10y ago
I use one IAM User per project per engineer, all tied to a root account. Since my IAM roles are project specific, the console shows only the resources relevant to the project that the IAM User is allowed to see. For quick switching between projects on the Console, I use a Chrome user session per project and have them loaded up. [Chrome session is the little icon on the top right corner of browser that has your name on it] It will indeed will be a cool Console feature to handle multiple IAM User sessions with a drop down toggle like the Region switch.

by ceejay 10y ago

dangoldin 10y ago

Agreed - that would be much appreciated. Very similar to the "Region" dropdown where you get limited to everything in a specific geography. I've started tagging resources and doing a filter/sort but it would be much nicer if I could just do it once during a session rather than filtering on each service's screen.

paulddraper 10y ago

Most use separate accounts for these purposes. You can connect them for credentials, billing, etc., but there's still some friction.

rvvind 10y ago

I use one IAM User per project per engineer, all tied to a root account. Since my IAM roles are project specific, the console shows only the resources relevant to the project that the IAM User is allowed to see. For quick switching between projects on the Console, I use a Chrome user session per project and have them loaded up. [Chrome session is the little icon on the top right corner of browser that has your name on it] It will indeed will be a cool Console feature to handle multiple IAM User sessions with a drop down toggle like the Region switch.