A common AWS pattern: 1 - Hey, $SERVICE looks exactly what I need. Neat! 2 - Wait, how do I do $THING with $SERVICE. No way $SERVICE can't do $THING. 3 - Rea

A common AWS pattern: 1 - Hey, $SERVICE looks exactly what I need. Neat! 2 - Wait, how do I do $THING with $SERVICE. No way $SERVICE can't do $THING. 3 - Realize $SERVICE is extremely limited and full of weird edge cases, get pissed. In general their docs are not transparent about the limitations of their products compared to similar non managed solutions. I sort of gave up using AWS managed services after a few years DevOpsing, except for the more flexible / battle tested ones: VPC, EC2, etc...