CloudFormer requires you to run an EC2 instance to get access to your environment. I never understood the reasoning behind that, other than least-common denomin

CloudFormer requires you to run an EC2 instance to get access to your environment. I never understood the reasoning behind that, other than least-common denominator within AWS. Since they already publish a decent SDK and have decent APIs this approach makes much more sense to me - list your set of stuff via the API you're already using, then munger it into CFN format.