[tgeek]

"That being said, opsworks is still based on chef, which is still cumbersome."

re:chef

I don't think this is necessarily a fair assessment and true for all. There are a ton of community cookbooks out there, and a very large community now online to help people with Chef. I've been using Chef for years and like anything else once you get over the learning period, it becomes second nature. Any tool that you use will have some learning curve to it, and so the trade offs that make it cumbersome for some, make it easy for others.

Also, you could technically Chef in Ansible in OpsWorks(if OpsWorks met other needs for you), but thats just crazy talk haha