Does this take away the need for customers to develop their own tooling to interact with various AWS services? It's hard to understand what this is doing.
My understanding is that this is like Heroku, except there's no additional charge, and you have full access to all of the services underneath in case you need to customize something.
It seems like this is a tool that simplify the process of creating and managing services to help speed up the development process, while still leaving the typical services that AWS provides available.