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You are not the target audience.

AWS makes their money off of enterprise customers. The people who use AWS at that level have usually learned to use it. And it really is a skill.

AWS is not an infrastructure provider, it’s an infrastructure framework. You can spend years learning it and only have gone through a small part of its services on offer.

Bad for newbies, as you say. They do have some services for these kinds of use cases too (lightsail), but it is not at the top of their priority list to cater to them.

The strategy works. And to be honest, not everything has to be easy to use to newcomers if it degrades the experience for those taking the time to learn the hard way.

Flying a plane isn’t something you’re learning just off the UI for example.

[whoevercares]

That strategy has been seriously challenged by Azure who sell solutions on cloud with Microsoft pack. Old fashioned enterprise favors Azure and workspace like solutions more so easy to use is even more important.

Why? They don’t even have engineering team and will never hire many. They only have “IT”