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> I don't think I've ever seen "fun" and "aws console" used in the same sentence before.

In my opinion AWS Console is one of the best designed from all cloud providers out there. GCP is years behind, even with $100k credits I just can force myself to use that pice of unusable crap. Probably Material Design is here to blame, as it's terrible on web.

DigitalOcean does a great job with their interface but they don't even have 1/20 of features offered by AWS, at the end it will share the fate of GCP. Being extremely bloated. :)

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My cloud spend is in the millions, soon to be tens of millions, every year and I'm a heavy user of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure and I agree with you wholeheartedly. It's not even just the console but the underlying APIs. I do everything via Terraform anyway but GCP is buggy and inconsistent in areas where it absolutely shouldn't be.

Azure is 5 years ahead of Google Cloud. AWS is 5 years ahead of Azure. The differences are that extreme.

I'm spending literally a fraction of your budget and that is my amateurish assessment as well. AWS Console can be better but the Azure dashboard could've been from the 90s. I had a hard time navigating it.

"In my opinion AWS Console is one of the best designed from all cloud providers out there. GCP is years behind, even with $100k credits I just can force myself to use that pice of unusable crap. Probably Material Design is here to blame, as it's terrible on web."

I hear this for the first time; to me all the Amazon related interfaces I've used have resulted in poor user experience at best. This goes from the store to AWS and sellerscentral should really get a special mention. In AWS, I always felt that everything was super cluttered and important things hard to find, nowhere near intuitive. This goes for high level concepts as much as component behaviors like lists in s3... So, I'd be super curious to hear what you found that was so good. Care to share?

I feel this way about azure. The UI is terrible yet I can get stuff done in AWS ui rather quickly.

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