[thdxr]

that's creating the raw ecs cluster

these components have

1. adding services that can auto scale

2. specifying load balancing config

3. automatic service discovery registration

4. network tunnel to access vpc resources from your machine

5. typesafe resource linking to access your resources in your application code

6. dev mode which brings up your system locally in a single multiplexed terminal UI

not pitching - just listing out why we bother doing anything. pulumi is great and if you want a more low level experience you should use it

[tnolet]

I understand, that is indeed valuable. But not at all clear from the documentation / copy in the linked post. I did not watch the video...

[jayair]

Yeah it's something we need to get better at.