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0 pointsbrimble4y ago0 comments

There's an entire surprisingly-large industry built around providing better UI to the major cloud providers, so you can actually tell WTF is going on with billing, access control, networking, et c. They're so hostile that it has to be intentional.

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scapecast4y ago

The underlying issue is that the cloud console is owned by a single product team, and THEY decide what gets exposed - not the underlying product teams for the individual services. At least that's the case for AWS.

The result is that you get a lowest common denominator type of dashboard. And hence a whole industry of providing just a prettier dashboard on top of AWS / GCP / Azure metrics.

Datadog started with a prettier dashboard for Cloudwatch data.

Cloudability started with a prettier dashboard for the Cost and Usage Report.

And also works the other way around. The individual product teams buy development environments to circumvent the console restrictions.

For example, a few years ago, the Redshift team purchased "DataRow".

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