Mathematicians don't brag when they do arithmetics, and they never, ever advise each other that arithmetics is useless. Lawyers don't brag when they read and write long text documents, and it is a useless idea to dismiss the importance of such patience. There is no a few hours quicker way to do a heart surgery for a surgeon even if she is so used to doing it.
Please, for the love of your craft, accept that it is OK for some things to stay difficult.
In the context of this article, if you are not gonna learn how to code, then make someone who can a stakeholder of the project. Or maybe consult to a professional!
In my experience, someone who can't do a "Hello HTTP" in at least one language will simply get lost in the huge dashboard of AWS or any other similar cloud service. Even when your solution doesn't involve novel technology, sticking existing components to each other will require coding skills. You don't want to paralyse your dev schedule due to a never ending SQL query which is quite likely to happen to a newbie "hacker". "Undefined is not a function" can mean 48294839 different things, which will scare you to death if you don't know what you are doing.