Ask HN: Working with the Amazon Web Services console

1 points by blutoot 12y ago ↗ HN

I am working on a small academic project trying to understand how software developers and architects utilize the consoles and dashboards of different cloud providers, especially in their product development and deployment workflows.

I would be grateful for some responses to the following 3 questions specifically about the Web console of Amazon Web Services.

How often in a month do you use the Console to...

1) reconfigure existing AWS instances or other service units (like an S3 bucket or a load balancer)? 2) add new AWS instances or other service units? 3) replicate existing AWS instances or other service units wherever applicable?

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lukeck 12y ago ↗

Aside from some legacy systems, our infrastructure is almost entirely hosted on AWS.

The answer to all three questions is the same: virtually never. Instead, we use Cloudformation and the AWS CLI/SDKs for various languages to script configuration and deployment. We do use the web console to view the current state of our infrastructure though.