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Amplify CLI and Amplify Console have nothing to do with one another. Confusing naming, I know.

Classic AWS. I have a SA Pro cert and I still couldn't reliably articulate the difference between Lightsail, SAM, and Amplify CLI. It feels like they keep adding to each without any apparent strategy. I didn't even know there was another product also branded "Amplify" separate from the CLI.

AWS really needs more centralized decision-making. It feels like individual product teams are allowed to go way off in the weeds without any frame of reference for whether their solutions make sense when plugged into the full suite.

The Amplify naming is a special kind of AWS classicality. Amplify, what a great Netlify like experience! Oh... not that one, you mean the CLI/Framework. Also pretty cool, we'll see how it plays out with the CDK. No? You mean the literal Amplify library that makes UI work easier. All of which can work together, but don't necessarily have to.

I can't complain too much, it's a bit of job assurance for folks like myself that specialize in only AWS. Exhausting keeping up to speed on everything though.

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