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I agree it doesn't look great, but I assure you they have A/B tested the shit out of every page they have ever rendered. Aesthetics aside, I am sure there is a justifible reason they do everything in their UIs.

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Eh, I'd agree about pages on the public/commerce side, but I highly doubt anything approaching that same level of rigor applies to the AWS console.

That's a very good point. Maybe a more accurate statement is "any page that could potentially drive a sale has been A/B tested to death."

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