[ninefathom]

I don't necessarily think that AWS is overly complicated. What I do think is that the entire ecosystem of tools is very powerful, and often times finding the "easy button" for a given task (and there usually is one) is far more time-consuming than it should be.

Many a time* I wished that Amazon would have a single easy-to-find documentation page listing common use cases and the de facto standard third-party tool (and there usually is one) to make a given case easier.

Fun side note: as a security professional, I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I've heard app owners claim that "AWS handles security for us" or some variation thereof.

*It's been a few years since I messed with AWS in depth; for all I know such a page may exist now.