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To play devil's advocate it is a platform for building scalable systems, not everything is going to be point & click & their users are fine with it. Their busin
by joshribakoff 9y ago
To play devil's advocate it is a platform for building scalable systems, not everything is going to be point & click & their users are fine with it. Their business model is providing infrastructure, not UX. Even amazon.com the marketplace does not have great UX, and if you view source their code is messy, it just goes to show it doesn't matter.
Other cloud providers may have a 1-click UX to deploy a load balancer, but they lack features Amazon has, like logs... once your app needs to scale you don't care about 1-click UX, you care more about how easy it is to debug & scale your platform...
- pritambarhate 9y agoGood UX can also make complex applications simpler to manage. Also, not all applications are complex and have a huge scale. There are many IT admins who need to manage a lot of small applications that support small departments. Also, I think AWS can have both. Great CLI and APIs to deploy complex infrastructure, and great visual UX to operate, monitor and manage it. I think we as customers should demand it. If we won't let them know of our pain, how will they know? I hope they are listening.
- gravypod 9y agoThere are security issues that stem from the crap UX. Ever set up an encrypted + restricted S3 bucket? You need to mess with AMI + KMS
- Terretta 9y agoAngel’s advocate. Those using the APIs for repeatable infra are on the side of the angels. :-)