Datomic Cloud makes it much easier to get started on AWS. It takes only a few minutes to sign up, see https://www.datomic.com/videos.html for a walkthrough.
Jumping into AWS, at least in my work environment, is a big jump requiring lots of supporting infrastructure etc. We’ll get there if it works out, but the dockerized setup is really helping in learning and evaluation.
Officially supported ways of doing this is something i’m sure you’ve considered before, it would be nice if cognitect could reconsider this.
That said, we understand the value of a local development mode and that is possible in the future.