I wouldn't argue that it's rather complex for what it does. The reason I still did it this way was that I want to get them automated, without doing anything manually. Even if I would need to just open my laptop, or run a script once, I think I would just stop at one point, and I don't think it would ever become a habit. Are there other tools that could probably get this project done with less complexity? Probably, but I have the pride of an engineer and wanted to brush up on my Terraform ;)