Yeah, I'm not gonna click around in a GUI to provision infrastructure. Not groping around a console was the whole point of Cloudformation and Terraform. While the UI looks cool and impressive it's a massive step backwards. I can't codegen and document a GUI. Based on the Tutorials it doesn't really solve the 200% problem because very little of this seems intuitive. Which is fine, it's a tool for professionals, investment is an expected exchange for power but I don't think it reaches the bar of "don't have to learn another thing."

The simulator, if it works as described, is huge. Would be worth 5 figures/year/engineer in time saved alone. If I can deploy to a simulator and it's close enough to the real thing that passing means g2g to prod the you have a gold mine. Oh lord, if you could write tests against the simulator and bring first-class unit testing to devops I might cry.