> A random developer logs into his AWS console, clicks a few buttons, and he's already running a fully instrumented service with logging and metrics a click away
In a dream. In the real world of medium-to-large enterprise, a developer opens a ticket or uses some custom-built tool to bootstrap a new service, after writing a design doc and maybe going through a security review. They wait for the necessary approvals while they prepare the internal observability tools, and find out that there is an ongoing migration and their stack is not fully supported yet. In the meantime, he needs permissions to edit the Terraform files to update routing rules and actually send traffic to their service. At no point he does, or ever will, have direct access to the AWS console. The tools mentioned are the full-time job of dozens of other engineers (and PMs, EMs and managers). This process takes days to weeks to complete.
In a dream. In the real world of medium-to-large enterprise, a developer opens a ticket or uses some custom-built tool to bootstrap a new service, after writing a design doc and maybe going through a security review. They wait for the necessary approvals while they prepare the internal observability tools, and find out that there is an ongoing migration and their stack is not fully supported yet. In the meantime, he needs permissions to edit the Terraform files to update routing rules and actually send traffic to their service. At no point he does, or ever will, have direct access to the AWS console. The tools mentioned are the full-time job of dozens of other engineers (and PMs, EMs and managers). This process takes days to weeks to complete.