Managing Cloud Infrastructure Shouldn't Take 15 Browser Tabs

Open the AWS console right now and count your tabs. If you manage any real infrastructure, it's somewhere between eight and you lost count. EC2 in one tab, the security group in another, CloudWatch open somewhere, RDS in a different region... AWS has over 200 services now. Nobody ever redesigned the console around that.

This is what happens when one interface has to hold this much surface area. Every service gets its own page, its own region switch, its own way of showing you the same account. Answering one real question means going and finding all the pieces yourself, every single time.

There is always one senior engineer

My first job out of college was as a server engineer at a company called GAVS Technologies in Chennai. VMware, Azure Intune, Active Directory, thousands of virtual servers. I was 22, the junior-most person on a team of six, and everyone else was in their thirties. There was one senior engineer who did most of the real troubleshooting, working closely with our manager, deep-diving logs, checking for vulnerabilities, always busy, always the one everyone pulled in the moment something broke.

My own workflow was 13 tabs open in VMware, a notepad, a physical notebook next to my keyboard so I wouldn't forget things, an Excel sheet I had to update by hand with every change I made, and service requests and tickets stacked on top of all of it. I hated it, honestly. And I also liked it... it taught me to work one thing at a time and think in systems, which is an odd thing to get good at in your first job in your twenties. But I did.

Here's what I noticed watching that one senior engineer carry the team. There is always one person like that. The one everything routes through, the one holding the whole system in their head while everyone else holds a piece of it. The work itself was never the hard part. The knowledge living in one person instead of everyone... that was the hard part. That's the actual reason we built Liberra... so everybody gets a senior engineer with them.

The console still has the same shape

Years later, learning AWS on my own time, I found the same shape waiting for me. One service per page. One region at a time. Everything you need scattered across tabs you have to hold open in your head. Ask a real question, like whether an instance is safe and what it's costing you, and you're back in the same routine. EC2 tab, security group tab, CloudWatch tab, billing tab. Same problem, different logo.

With Liberra, your account is already indexed. You ask the question in one sentence, and the answer comes back in one place, pulled from everything it already knows about your infrastructure instead of you pulling it together yourself.

Reads are free, writes wait for you

Reads are instant and need no approval, so you can ask as many questions as you want. Any write pauses for you to approve before it runs. Deletes are physically blocked in the code, not just discouraged. And it explains why, as it goes, the same way that one senior engineer would if you asked him to slow down and walk you through it.

Founder, Liberra AI