Writing custom scripts for even the simplest of queries comes nowhere near the convenience of using PostgreSQL to get what you want. If you wanted to find and report all instances in an AWS account across all regions, with steampipe it's just:
SELECT * FROM aws_ec2_instance;
Even the simplest implementation with a Python script won't be nearly as nice, and once you start combining tables and doing more complicated queries, there's just no competition.
Writing custom scripts for even the simplest of queries comes nowhere near the convenience of using PostgreSQL to get what you want. If you wanted to find and report all instances in an AWS account across all regions, with steampipe it's just:
Even the simplest implementation with a Python script won't be nearly as nice, and once you start combining tables and doing more complicated queries, there's just no competition.