I agree, but you're doing it wrong. I would never use Lambda, Cloud Formation, or similar. My experience with AWS is that all the original service (EC2, Route53

I agree, but you're doing it wrong. I would never use Lambda, Cloud Formation, or similar. My experience with AWS is that all the original service (EC2, Route53, RDS, S3, etc.) are robust, easy, and awesome. You also avoid vendor lock-in. The massive number of proprietary newer services are junk, with the exception of some of the ML services. The ML services are sometimes helpful, but I expect they'll quickly be obsoleted.