I'd add a few to those. Fargate is remarkably trouble-free. ElastiCache is reasonably well-done Redis. SQS, EventBridge, and SNS are solid and unsurprising. Eve

I'd add a few to those. Fargate is remarkably trouble-free. ElastiCache is reasonably well-done Redis. SQS, EventBridge, and SNS are solid and unsurprising. Even DynamoDB is quite good so long as the implementor understands how to actually use it (most people don't, and instead just crank up the read units until AWS literally owns your company). But the thrust of your point remains: when you get into the nonsense factory, when you're trying to bolt together the higher level integrated services, it becomes an exercise in self-inflicted stochastic violence.