[margorczynski]

The basic thing when dealing with the "Cloud" is to stay away from their exclusive offering and vendor-specific stuff to avoid lock-in. Once you're locked in you're gonna get fleeced really hard as they are aware that moving away in such a situation is much harder.

In general when you have a solution that is supposed to handle any problem and scenario like with AWS you'll eventually end up with some complicated Frankenstein-y creation, there's probably no going around it if they want such a robust set of features and capabilities.