AWS Management Console

The AWS console is less a product than a federation of teams, and you feel every seam. Each service — EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda — was clearly built by a different group, so layouts, table behaviors, and even the meaning of a blue button shift as you move between them. The unifying thread is the universal service search in the top bar, which most people now rely on because the menu structure is unbrowsable. Resource lists are powerful but unforgiving: tagging, filtering, and region scoping all live in different places, and forgetting which region you're in is a rite of passage. IAM's permission editor exposes raw JSON policy because no abstraction survived contact with its complexity. It rewards expertise and punishes everyone else.