There is a wide range of sample code, libraries, documentation, templates, sample applications, and tools available that provide a very real alternative for monitoring and managing multi-system cloud based architectures programmatically rather than using the web based front end.
3.5 Storage Architectures
The storage architecture behind AWS is truly vast, very complex, and the source of much of the angst around the deployment of services on the AWS cloud by organizations both large and small.
The problem lies in the idea that the replication technology that makes the architecture useful at the same time makes it very scary.