trust me, no matter how you slice it, it's a shitload of effort. that is exactly how AWS makes a ton of money. they make hard things easy (and expensive). do

trust me, no matter how you slice it, it's a shitload of effort. that is exactly how AWS makes a ton of money. they make hard things easy (and expensive). do you want the pain, or do you want the money, that's the basic proposition here. when you start looking at 25, 50, 150k/month of savings by doing stuff yourself, the choice becomes much clearer. in many cases i've seen, you could theoretically hire an entire team to take care of the stuff that AWS does for you, and still come out ahead.