# How is AWS console so broken?

> Source: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531472>
> Published: 2026-09-02 03:45:54+00:00

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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