I think this experience is universal. Are there any tools or practices that make it easier to use IAM?

I feel like AWS deliberately adds complexity so that people are in way too deep before they realize it, and then when someone finally says, "Could we not just do this cheaper on our own hardware?", it is too complex to make that an easy switch.

Don't get me wrong, I think AWS is a great collection of products... if you either know you'll be small enough to stay cheap, or you have no idea what scale you will need in the next few months/quarters. But if you do have a solid baseline of computing needs, I simply don't recommend them anymore. They are your overflow solution, not your foundational ecosystem.

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