AWS policy descriptors are certainly robust enough to handle something like this. These frameworks are built for hackathon type projects where you are just using a personal AWS account and you don't care about fiddling with permissions. Try getting access to an Administrator user/role at a big company.
To back up my first point, the framework owner could easily instruct users to set up a temporary user/role that creates the initial function roles/policies as one-time setup. Then a user/role with only the service-level permissions (Lambda etc.) could manage all the actual resources.
The devs who build these frameworks want them to be super simple to use, otherwise they won't retain users!
No way you're getting 15 ms on a TLS connection over the internet. I've set up similar pings with API Gateway and API Gateway -> Lambda, and it seems with the APIGW the TLS connection is the most expensive part. On an established connection I've seen 10 ms overhead which is not great but worth the value in some cases.
Is your 'Bare EC2' over SSL? I've used Apex Ping as well (btw it runs on Lambda), and it seems they open a new connection on each ping.
Getting 15 ms latency on a brand new TLS connection is nearly impossible over the internet. If you actually check the latency breakdown on your Ping, you'll see the TLS handshake is dominating the API Gateway -> EC2 request.
I'm all for this type of analysis, but too often it isn't apples to apples.
Apple doesn't want everyone to switch to lightning. They are banking that bluetooth will eventually be the 90% even 99% standard among consumers. I tend to agree.
The AirPods are bluetooth. I think that has been a point of confusion. Also, 5 hrs may not seem like much but 24 hours w/ the case is a lot more than comparable bluetooth earbuds. And I really love the idea of a battery case: extend battery life, no connector on headphones, keeping them in the case may make it harder to lose them.
Latency was a concern at launch but it has improved a lot, I see less than 20 ms these days. Depends on scale though, we have moderate sustained load 24/7