I think I got downvoted by someone who doesn't like AWS. Anyway, the purpose was to say that you don't have to spin up virtual machines on AWS if you build your

I think I got downvoted by someone who doesn't like AWS. Anyway, the purpose was to say that you don't have to spin up virtual machines on AWS if you build your app with the serverless paradigm, and that fits small projects well because of really low cost. Tools like Serverless can be used to automate most of this.