Fair point — a technical person can absolutely wire up pre-signed URLs and a basic UI. The target here is more the IT lead who gets the ticket from finance or legal: “we need access to these files on S3.” They could build it, but it’s a week of work, then ongoing maintenance, auth, permissions, audit logging, SSO… BucketDrive is a CloudFormation stack that gives them all of that in 10 minutes, running serverless in their own account. The “build vs buy” math changes when the person asking isn’t the one building.
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Switch context from what you're working on
Navigate to the website
Wait for it to load
Find the information you need
Close the tab and try to remember what you were doing
It's death by a thousand paper cuts.
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