I have spent about 1 day waiting for every 5 days doing stuff at my last 3 jobs all of which were growing companies thinking that they needed the power of the cloud, but they sure as hell were not paying to make it fast or easy to use.

Pay some "devops" folks and then underfund them and give them a mandate of all ops but with less people and also you need to manage the constant churn of aws services and then deal with normal outages and dumb dev things.