Coming from Google Cloud, I couldn't deal with the atrocity that is awscli, so I ended up eventually implementing the bare minimum of shell wrappers to at least

Coming from Google Cloud, I couldn't deal with the atrocity that is awscli, so I ended up eventually implementing the bare minimum of shell wrappers to at least start, stop, ssh into, rsync files to and from, etc, my aws instances _by name_, not by instance ID. Took me a couple of hours to cobble it together. Google cloud CLI offers all of this out of the box. Why Amazon wants to make such basic commands difficult, I'll never understand.