[jedberg]

Not every service has an API, especially new ones. They tend to launch things console first. Look at Alexa. It took over a year to get API, and it still doesn't have CloudFormation support.

[Bellyache5]

I don’t think Alexa is considered an AWS product/service. While you need AWS’ Lambda to make it work, Alexa is an Amazon (versus AWS) product.

[jedberg]

Ok, fair point, but you can see the same pattern with other services. Look at any of the AI services for example. Everything was console first.