> The moral of the story? Don't ever use AWS tools like the one the OP describes, ones which create a bunch of different resources for you automatically.

i use them to create a small test stack to look at it for a day or two.

then go through, delete all of the resources, put what i need into terraform etc.

has worked well for me in the past.

but yeah, i would never blindly use aws tools to magically put something into production.