> AWS is an API. Exactly. Most of my grief is wrestling with the misc tools which obfuscate the underlying API. Bad or good design aside, I just need to see w

> AWS is an API. Exactly. Most of my grief is wrestling with the misc tools which obfuscate the underlying API. Bad or good design aside, I just need to see what's on the wire. Once I kinda grok the mechanics, I can map whatever tool's (terrible) UX to the reality. It's my mental quirk. Maybe the inability to suspend disbelief. It's always slowed me down. But once I have a mental model, I can move pretty fast.