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One of the reasonable reasons why errors often get returned generically is because of security though.

• foxpurple 5y ago
  Exactly usually the real error message behind the “oopsie” is a stack trace containing sensitive information and environment variables. It is no use to the user since they can’t do anything and is actually dangerous to give out.
  • bandie91 5y ago
    aws exceptionally performs well in this question: in some IAM-related (permission management) API error messages contains encrypted details so it does not leak sensitive data but the support can decrypt an analyze it if the user pastes it back.
    • foxpurple 5y ago
      An alternative is just showing the request ID so support can look up the error in logging