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This anti-pattern is the thing that makes AWS EC2 the most user hostile IME. I never want to click "Copy To Clipboard", because I often want to *select the text* which is made harder because by clicking the text changes it. I often want to put it into another clipboard than my default - but maybe I have different goals than everyone else.

And I don't want to "Open Address" most of the time. Why would I want to open it on the web! It's a brand new VM?!

A screenshot of the AWS EC2 console, with the IP of a server, with "Open Address" and "Copy To Clipboard buttons"
Don't worry, I'm gonna delete that server, that IP isn't a thing.