> ”AWS has so many services at this point and it feels like so many of them overlap too.”

Yep. I’ve also always found it frustrating how so many of them have names like “Snowball”, “Kenesis”, “Beanstalk”, “Fargate”, “Aurora”, etc, which don’t give you any real clue what they do.

Route 53 is one of the few intuitively named services they offer.