That's no joke. I have a decent software background and it was far from trivial to get going with aws services. Their documentation doesn't always quite tel you everything you need to know and half thhe time there are conflicting docs both saying to do something that's wrong. Still has been less work than a production server at my last engineering job but then again that project had a lot of issues related to age and shitty code bases. Hard to say which would have been less work honestly.