{"slug": "how-is-aws-console-so-broken", "title": "How is AWS console so broken?", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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.\n\nMy simple workflow - I want to copy millions of objects from one bucket in us-east-1 to us-west-1\n\n1. 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.\n\n2. 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.\n\nI can perhaps use a CLI, which is a long list of instructions to follow and execute without pulling my hair out.\n\nI 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.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531472](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531472)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 1", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-is-aws-console-so-broken", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531472", "published_at": "2026-09-02 03:45:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-02 04:22:29.490576+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["AWS", "S3", "Claude Code", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-is-aws-console-so-broken", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-is-aws-console-so-broken.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-is-aws-console-so-broken.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-is-aws-console-so-broken.jsonld"}}