I am working on a small academic project trying to understand how software developers and architects utilize the consoles and dashboards of different cloud providers, especially in their product development and deployment workflows.
I would be grateful for some responses to the following 3 questions specifically about the Web console of Amazon Web Services.
How often in a month do you use the Console to...
1) reconfigure existing AWS instances or other service units (like an S3 bucket or a load balancer)?
2) add new AWS instances or other service units?
3) replicate existing AWS instances or other service units wherever applicable?
The answer to all three questions is the same: virtually never. Instead, we use Cloudformation and the AWS CLI/SDKs for various languages to script configuration and deployment. We do use the web console to view the current state of our infrastructure though.