AWS is a lovely cloud provider…

Jeffrey 'jf' Lim
4 min readApr 3, 2018

“… for me to poop on!!!”

In the same vein as my Apple article, here’s one for AWS. A list of the dumb things that AWS does:

  1. EC2/Security Groups: want to rename a security group, or even just edit the description (OMG, the description field!) of a security group? Try the following: (1) create a new one (somebody help you if you make a typo on that one; you’ll have to delete and re-create another one all over again), (2) add the new group to every single thing you assigned to the old group, (3) remove the old group from every single thing you assigned…

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Jeffrey 'jf' Lim

Rare technical insights that make you THINK / Polymath and Nerd / Believer in Open Source