I participated in AWS training and certification given by AWS for a company to obtain a government contract and I can 100% say that the PAID TRAINING itself is also 100% marketing and developer evangelism.
Just use Docker, there are plenty of services where deployment is simply - “hand your container to us and we run it”.
Even the most complicated popular ways to deploy Docker are simpler than deploying to a VM and a lot less error prone.
AWS will hopefully be reduced to natural language soon enough with AI, and their product team can move on (most likely they moved on a long time ago, and the revolving door at the company meant it was going remain a shittily thought out platform in long term maintenance).
They were a much nicer, if overpriced, load balancing alternative to the Cisco Content Switch we were using, though.