Sometimes you need focus, and this happens to be one of those times. I need to get a bit more understanding on the paticular AWS ecosystem I'm working with at the moment, and I'm doing so by learning as much as I can about the various AWS tools and products. The end product here should be some paticular expertise, and hopefully a certification. I have to say, Amazon has many bits covered so you don't have to venture off of their farm, but some of it does seem like it was more rushed than it should have been or maybe more neglected lately then it could be in another situation. With my personel perspective of learning kubernetes, it's clear that while AWS supports a wide array of products, ìts trying not to embrace anything too tightly, least consumer preference sway and they have to pivot once again. Now, implementation should be a detail that consumers don't care about, but their k8s stuff adds a bit of cost overhead and doesn't sem to be leveraged in any other products, which surprises me a bit. The biggest contrast here is Teraform vs. CloudFormation -- two tools which do a similar job. Terraform is the declarative tool where you vendor agnostically specify your cloud system, where CloudFormation is your tightly coupled AWS tool where you build resource "stacks" from templates, which are declarative specs of your AWS cloud system. Each AWS service element has an intended focus area, but like Perl of yesteryear many services have some bits that overlap with other services, each with slight differences on what they are best at. While its good to have choice, it can mean you aren't always sure which service to use in which situation, and whether a specific service covers all of your use cases. Anyways, onward to more understanding and hopefully a certification!