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Cloud9 is better than other AWS products in that you can click through one wizard that sets up your EC2 instance and provisions the Cloud9 software on it at the

Cloud9 is better than other AWS products in that you can click through one wizard that sets up your EC2 instance and provisions the Cloud9 software on it at the same time. The AWS interface is still a byzantine nightmare of a labyrinth, but just getting into Cloud9 can be saved with a bookmark once it's set up, and setting it up is just one wizard. Agreed that it's a higher barrier of entry compared to how simple and slick the c9.io interface was.

RhodesianHunter 8y ago
> The AWS interface is still a byzantine nightmare of a labyrinth I've heard this enough times to know that it's widely agreed upon, but I've never understood it personally.
- spurcell93 8y ago
  Given the absolutely massive and technical amount of features that aws requires, it's not surprising (or even worthy of condemnation) that the interface can get somewhat convoluted. That said, I wonder if there is a stripped down version of that interface that would better accommodate a hypothetical cohort of extremely common use cases. I would bet there isnt, which is why the interface is so.... Deep.
  - ianlevesque 8y ago
    Not exactly what you describe but Amazon does have Lightsail for this purpose. https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/ https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
  - stephengillie 8y ago
    There's a way to pin sections to the nav bar. So you can pin EC2, IAM, RDS, and VPC up there if you mainly use those 4 services. It's a bit of a nightmare, as a support engineer, to get access requests for AWS services you've never heard of before. "Need access to AWS services: Cloud9, Memento, Athena, and Pandora Nexus." Each having a completely unique set of granular permissions to fumble over means most users get full permissions to the requested service until the auditors complain.
stephengillie 8y ago
Administrators beware - this auto-set up creates wide open security groups and other misconfigurations. Some of these will show up on your Trusted Advisor report.

RhodesianHunter 8y ago

> The AWS interface is still a byzantine nightmare of a labyrinth I've heard this enough times to know that it's widely agreed upon, but I've never understood it personally.

spurcell93 8y ago
Given the absolutely massive and technical amount of features that aws requires, it's not surprising (or even worthy of condemnation) that the interface can get somewhat convoluted. That said, I wonder if there is a stripped down version of that interface that would better accommodate a hypothetical cohort of extremely common use cases. I would bet there isnt, which is why the interface is so.... Deep.
- ianlevesque 8y ago
  Not exactly what you describe but Amazon does have Lightsail for this purpose. https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/ https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
- stephengillie 8y ago
  There's a way to pin sections to the nav bar. So you can pin EC2, IAM, RDS, and VPC up there if you mainly use those 4 services. It's a bit of a nightmare, as a support engineer, to get access requests for AWS services you've never heard of before. "Need access to AWS services: Cloud9, Memento, Athena, and Pandora Nexus." Each having a completely unique set of granular permissions to fumble over means most users get full permissions to the requested service until the auditors complain.

stephengillie 8y ago

Administrators beware - this auto-set up creates wide open security groups and other misconfigurations. Some of these will show up on your Trusted Advisor report.