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DO is my absolute favorite. I really think they could be a long term winner. Their interface is so much nicer than the competitors, in my opinion. I'm not ev

by axaxs 7y ago

DO is my absolute favorite. I really think they could be a long term winner. Their interface is so much nicer than the competitors, in my opinion. I'm not even currently a customer, let alone a shill.

steve_adams_86 7y ago
I agree that DO is awesome. I'd argue though that they can make a better UI because they offer less. Everything is a littler simpler. It would be hard to condense AWS into a similar type of interface. Having said that, DO is enough for virtually everything I've ever worked on, and the user experience and price are so much better. They're a clear winner for almost everything I do these days.
- axaxs 7y ago
  I agree but that's part of the charm to me. I only use what 4 or 5 things in AWS, but each login is information overload. Having to Ctrl F what you are looking for is not an ideal experience. Whether a conscious decision or not, I think offering what the 80ish percent (just a guess) actually use, and streamlining it, is the right decision.
- freehunter 7y ago
  AWS could really use a dashboard where you can pick the components you want to see and only those show up. If I only use S3 and EC2 I shouldn’t have to search for those two products every time I log in.
  - scarface74 7y ago
    The console already shows the five most recently used components when you log in.
    - freehunter 7y ago
      Yet somehow it always seems to forget.
  - axaxs 7y ago
    This is what I don't understand. AMZ is one of the richest companies ever, but everyone agrees their AWS interface is terrible. It looks like an engineer wrote it 20 years ago and nobody ever bothered to refactor it. Just showing what you're actually using by default would be a 1000% improvement. I don't even have admin access at my current company, quit showing me things I won't and can't use.
    - jrockway 7y ago
      Look at Amazon.com. Same deal. Nobody wants to be the person that redesigns the UI and sees sales drop off by 0.001%. I think they're afraid to touch what made them #1, even if it's objectively terrible.

by axaxs 7y ago

steve_adams_86 7y ago

I agree that DO is awesome. I'd argue though that they can make a better UI because they offer less. Everything is a littler simpler. It would be hard to condense AWS into a similar type of interface. Having said that, DO is enough for virtually everything I've ever worked on, and the user experience and price are so much better. They're a clear winner for almost everything I do these days.

axaxs 7y ago
I agree but that's part of the charm to me. I only use what 4 or 5 things in AWS, but each login is information overload. Having to Ctrl F what you are looking for is not an ideal experience. Whether a conscious decision or not, I think offering what the 80ish percent (just a guess) actually use, and streamlining it, is the right decision.
freehunter 7y ago
AWS could really use a dashboard where you can pick the components you want to see and only those show up. If I only use S3 and EC2 I shouldn’t have to search for those two products every time I log in.
- scarface74 7y ago
  The console already shows the five most recently used components when you log in.
  - freehunter 7y ago
    Yet somehow it always seems to forget.
- axaxs 7y ago
  This is what I don't understand. AMZ is one of the richest companies ever, but everyone agrees their AWS interface is terrible. It looks like an engineer wrote it 20 years ago and nobody ever bothered to refactor it. Just showing what you're actually using by default would be a 1000% improvement. I don't even have admin access at my current company, quit showing me things I won't and can't use.
  - jrockway 7y ago
    Look at Amazon.com. Same deal. Nobody wants to be the person that redesigns the UI and sees sales drop off by 0.001%. I think they're afraid to touch what made them #1, even if it's objectively terrible.