Wut.Dev (https://wut.dev) - a fast, client-side, privacy-focused, alternative to the AWS console.

I got tired of using the AWS console for simple tasks, like looking up resource details, so I built a fast, privacy-focused, no-signup-required, read-only, multi-region, auto-paginating alternative using the client-side AWS JavaScript SDKs where every page has a consistent UI/UX and resources are displayed as a searchable, filterable table with one-click CSV exports. You can try a demo here[1]

[1] https://app.wut.dev/?service=acm&type=certificates&demo=true

Unsolicited feedback (and take with grain salt since I’m probably not your target buyer)

- the subheading is describing the “how” not the “what”. Meaning, what would you use this product for?

- in general, all the headlines could be preposition from the “what” a user would do scenario. Eg instead of saying “Resource Relationship Diagrams” … say “See Resource Relationship with Ease”

- if I’m understanding the tool correctly, this seems like a “lookup” tool. In which case lookup.dev is for sale … just fyi.

Much appreciated! I just put this homepage together recently, so this is really helpful feedback.

Great idea, i'm tired of aws console too

This "AI will never replace _my_ job" attitude by security folks (and I say this as a security engineer myself) is insufferable. Yeah, there are likely lots of vulnerabilities getting vibe coded into apps right now. But AI is improving rapidly, and in a few years you'll likely look back wondering what happened to the job market. Adapt or don't, I suppose.

It’s interesting that multi-region is often touted as a mechanism for resilience and availability, but for the most part, large cloud providers seem hopelessly intertwined across regions during outages like these.

This is really only a problem on GCP, who treats regions far differently from other providers.

From a resilience perspective, it's best to treat GCP as a single region with a bunch of zones.

Mind the unknown unknowns there. You are not aware of all the "outages like these" that could have occurred but did not thanks to regional/zonal sharding.

I dont think you can really make a conclusion without first understanding occasions where multi-region deployments have prevented incidents.

I can recall plenty of times HN has been down.

it has already been facing some issues in the past couple weeks. e.g. the "front" page was broken randomly for past dates (like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-05-30 or https://news.ycombinator.com/front?p=2)

as per their api documentation [1], it might be linked to firebase, which might explain this?

[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API

the API has afaik nothing to do with HN itself, its a read-only copy for API users, not what backs the actual site.

Wut.Dev - a "better" AWS console (https://app.wut.dev)

I got tired of using the AWS console (the UI is inconsistent across services, resource-heavy, and loaded with things I don't need)

I've built a handful of features, mostly to scratch my own itch, including:

• Multi-region mode (select 2+ regions and see all your resources on the same page)

• Automated diagrams (tree-style resource relationships)

• Easy export to CSV

• Reference matrix of AWS service/region availability

The best way to explain it is with a demo, so I built a demo version: https://app.wut.dev/?service=acm&type=certificates&demo=true

I wish X would allow you to mute lists of people. I keep a list for insufferable VCs, and it would be nice to mute the whole list at once.

Maybe a feature request for your extension: take a list and mute everyone on it, and periodically check for new additions and mute those too. That way I can have the list be the source of truth, rather than commenting on every person I mute individually.

Import/export mute lists would be an amazing feature but why would x allow that? Shareable mute lists would turn the place into mastodon or something non-monitizeable due to low enragement.

I bought this book immediately after the last post here on HN about it. Good read so far!

I haven’t been a fan of the UI for a while, although admittedly it’s a tough job - there’s a lot to cram in there! I started building a simpler alternative, where everything is just a simple, sortable, exportable table (details in profile). It’s been fun to build, but the sheer number of services has been a slog.

I've been working on https://wut.dev in my spare time.

It's essentially a simpler, read-only, AWS dashboard where everything is a filterable, searchable, exportable-to-CSV table, with some extra features like multi-region mode, saved notes, and a debugger for access denied errors.

It uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript, so everything is run client-side from your browser. I'm not 100% sure what direction I'm taking it yet, but it's been fun to hack on!

There's a live demo here: https://wut.dev/?service=ec2&type=instances&demo=true if you want to try it out.

are you designing the UI for every service by hand, or doing it programmatically somehow?

Thankfully programmatic. It’s a common UI table widget, essentially, and I’ve written some custom code to handle multi-region support, updating the AWS credential handler, pagination, and response processing. From there, it’s a matter of plugging in some common options for each AWS service: the service name, SDK method to call, pagination property (annoyingly, AWS API has numerous ways of paginating responses), etc. Takes about five minutes to add a new service.

I'm using ag-grid for my project too. I did a bunch of work to make configuring it more declarative... so you can have pinned rows that read from a different data source for summary stats, so you can specify custom renderers for each column. how have you found ag-grid to use?

https://buckaroo-data.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/inde... I need to clean up those examples.

Oh, that's neat! I've found it to be really flexible, although some of the really nice features are (understandably) locked behind the expensive "Pro" version (like right-click context menus, etc.). Will check out your examples!

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

Expect to see more of this, especially when the audience is local/US. IIRC, some newspapers are already doing region blocks. Why should website owners targeting US visitors spend _any_ amount of money making their content comply with asinine regulations (like cookie banners)?

Cookie banners are not a regulation requirement.

Contrary to what you seem to believe...There were more geoblocks when the EU law went into action a couple of years ago. There are less now.

> There were more geoblocks when the EU law went into action a couple of years ago. There are less now.

Source for that?

My personal experience.

EU cookie directive predates GDPR. Notices have long been required by that regulation for use of non-essential cookies.