Setting up solutions in AWS is a most painful experience. Even AWS consultants do not find it easy and trivial. However, IaS being a complicated hornets' nest

Setting up solutions in AWS is a most painful experience. Even AWS consultants do not find it easy and trivial. However, IaS being a complicated hornets' nest is more direct evidence of vast complexity in architecture. The best way to address it is to decrease the complexity of the system. It will have great rewards across the board. Most systems composed these days, have far more moving parts than what is needed. Simplify and shrink. Some projects really do need it, no doubt about that, but I predict that somewhere around 80% at least coud make do with far less, and the project will benefit from it to to bottom.