[simonw]

This is a really smart setup, and superbly documented.

I just wish there weren't so many steps to get this kind of thing running! Even with automation it's still a LOT - getting this running myself would take me a few hours, and I have prior relevant experience.

A regular non-software-industry-professional parent has little chance.

I really wish there were better ways to make AWS stuff like this available for people to use without requiring them to have deep knowledge of how to work with different aspects of AWS.

[kaydub]

PR a cloudformation template

[simonw]

My hunch is that even a cloudformation template would be way beyond the capabilities of most non-software-engineers.

I wish AWS would provide some kind of interface where I can redirect a regular human being to easy-deploy.aws.com/?cloudformation=url-to-my-cloud-formation and they would be presented with a human-readable form that tells them what it will do, sets a hard limit on how much money it will be able to burn through (for protection against crypto-currency mining scams), enter their credit card details and click "Deploy" to start using it.