That's not accurate. There are some things you cannot even do in the API and it must be done in the console. I agree with others here that you should be using C

That's not accurate. There are some things you cannot even do in the API and it must be done in the console. I agree with others here that you should be using Cloudformation as much as possible, but even that isn't 100% supported and sometimes you need to click around the console to set things up.