[steveBK123]

So guys we need Lambdas + Step Functions + SES + SQS + SNS + MSK + AWS Batch + S3 + Lakeformation + Cloudformation + Athena + EMR + Redshift + Aurora + SageMaker + Cloudtrail + Codepipeline + maybe some EC2s to run AWS CLI on them.

Don't forget to configure Route53, VPC, IAM and an ELB.

Great - ready to start writing your app now?

Oh wow one of those components as configured with the other components isn't behaving as expected - time to contact AWS support!

Cynically I think CTOs see all this stuff and think they'll turn all their expensive on-shore devs into cheaper DevOps because AWS is magic and you don't need to write hard app code anymore.

I'd counter that AWS forces expensive on-shore devs into having to wear an entire new hat and be half a DevOps engineer to figure out how to make their code work on this alphabet soup instead of a Linux server.