Our team uses the AWS Management Console primarily for initial resource provisioning, monitoring, and ad-hoc troubleshooting. It provides an intuitive, visual interface that simplifies tasks such as launching EC2 instances, configuring S3 buckets, and monitoring application performance through CloudWatch dashboards. For everyday operations, the console is especially useful for quick configuration changes and getting an overview of our cloud resources without having to remember specific command-line syntax. However, for routine, repeatable tasks and larger-scale automation, we prefer using CLI or automation tools like AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. These tools allow us to define infrastructure as code, ensuring consistency, scalability, and version control, which is especially important for maintaining production environments. While the console is great for immediate, manual tasks, CLI and automation tools are preferred for repeatability, versioning, and managing complex infrastructure changes across environments.