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Josh James Saunders
Josh James Saunders

Reputation: 166

AWS - Is there anything the API can't do ?

A mostly pointless question but I'm curious none the less and google gave me nothing (so hey lets let google index this one for next time)

Is there anything that explicitly cannot be done on an AWS account through the API alone?

eg. Is there something you MUST log in to the console, or even some other method perhaps ? For arguments sake, if I were to go ahead and develop an exact copy of the web console, obviously utilising the API, is there anything my web console couldnt do?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 120

Answers (1)

garnaat
garnaat

Reputation: 45916

There are features that are available only in the console. For example, the recently released ability to see the last time a particular IAM user or role was actually used is available only in the console. And scheduled Lambda functions originally appeared as a console-only feature but is now available via the CloudWatch Events API.

It's a pretty rare thing. For the most part, the console is built on the API's but it does happen.

And there are many examples of capabilities in the SDK's that are not available in the console.

Upvotes: 4

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