Getting abstractions wrong with AWS SAM Serverless Connectors

I was intrigued when I first saw the announcement of AWS SAM Serverless Connectors. I don’t use SAM very much (if at all anymore), so it wasn’t the hope of this being some sort of silver bullet for my occasional IAM frustrations that got my attention. Rather, it was another opportunity to learn how AWS is trying to abstract away their mostly self-imposed complexity problems. Unfortunately, I think they missed the mark on this.

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