Agreed, the AWS docs are terrible; they waffle on about inconsequential stuff, and insist on detailing every step and side tangent. Just tell me how to get postfix/php to use SES email without is failing silently!
The CloudFormation docs seemed to have been intentionally designed to torture anyone trying to use it. You end up reading everything you can find, learning almost nothing and having to infer everything from whatever examples you can find combined with just straight up guessing. Guessing with a run/teardown feedback loop measured in minutes with very little feedback.
