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How is AWS console so broken?

A developer rants on Hacker News that the AWS Management Console is broken for cross-region S3 bucket replication, citing missing monitoring and a batch operation that cannot select source and destination buckets in different regions. The user reports that Claude Code successfully created and executed the job via CLI without hesitation.

read1 min views1 publishedSep 2, 2026

A small rant, after painful user experience. I admit I visited it after a while spending on GCP space, but the console looks like it is either not maintained at all, or individual teams just throwing stuff at it and causing a mess.

My simple workflow - I want to copy millions of objects from one bucket in us-east-1 to us-west-1

  1. I can kick off the replication rule. but oh wait, there is no monitoring, unless you select it in edit rules. Even then, the experience is broken and I have now no idea if anything is happening in the background.

  2. There is batch operation. It doesn't work. If I select source region for aws console, I can't see destination region bucket to execute copy batch. Vice-a-versa, if I select destination region, I can't select any buckets from the source region.

I can perhaps use a CLI, which is a long list of instructions to follow and execute without pulling my hair out.

I asked claude code to just figure out out to create a job and execute it and tell me the state. It didn't even hesitate.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531472](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531472)

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