I don't think it is. Basically if you get your car from the dealership (AWS is great esp for EC2 and S3), you don't have to buy the tires from them too. What

I don't think it is. Basically if you get your car from the dealership (AWS is great esp for EC2 and S3), you don't have to buy the tires from them too. What I saw from the video does look interesting, but in the end, if you are going to have to edit your configuration management recipes in git, and then you're going to have the same choices to make about what tool is best for you. Whether that's Chef or something like http://ansible.cc http://ansible.cc -- this is what you are going to pick because it's what you're going to spend most of your automation time in. I also suspect Amazon will feel that people may want to bring their own tools and will add more options over time.