the core of aws is actually pretty good. it’s just wrapped in several layers of nutshells which aren’t needed except by the equally thick enterprise.

aws is also inescapably imperative. it’s how the api and everything behind the scenes work.

aws is gonna have a lot of nonsense best practices, both 1st and 3rd party, that you have to aggressively ignore.

if you can come to peace with these three truths, aws is great. i use it like this:

https://github.com/nathants/libaws

for those trying to improve, the best aws docs are currently the go sdk and gopls.