I am convinced that AWS is intentionally obtuse in order to promote job security for engineers and thus be the preferred platform
It really needs some love from a higher level thinker who's not steeped in the solution, but in the problem. Presumably this is a PM but there's just not a lot of good ones in the org to be frank. They're almost not worth consulting.
Sure, but vanilla setups should be trivial and optimised for cost. That is not to their or their consultants’ benefit.
I mean, whenever I asked someone ‘how do I do this in aws’, they tell me ‘oh that is a bog standard blah setup, very Simple’. So if that is simple, why is it so hard to set up as a novice (with 20 years of rack server bare metal hosting experience). I had to learn everything about aws in order to figure out that all experts saying things are ‘simple’ were still not providing optimal solutions for my vanille, and for decades unchanged across many different applications, hosting wishes. If you don’t know literally everything about aws and hired a consultant or a team to set it up, you are probably (massively) overpaying. And often, as I see at clients, for vanilla stuff that should be 1 click setup. But yes, I guess tool providers should provide this on top, not aws itself.