> Doesn't apply if the new tools are forced by management That's the reality I was trying to capture with my original comment. For example if you're moving fr

> Doesn't apply if the new tools are forced by management That's the reality I was trying to capture with my original comment. For example if you're moving from on-premise servers or a simpler cloud provider (Rackspace, Digital Ocean, or Joyent) to AWS there is no way to escape learning AWS, and the last thing you want to do is manage everthing through the web console so you will need to learn a new tool to manage the infrastrucutre when your old tools don't work with the new stuff. Management and sales types hear about how great, fast, and agile the cloud is and don't consider that it also takes some time to do things right, and there's is no way around learning lots of AWS specific bits at the very least.