Agreed. I'm on GCP whenever I get to pick. For anyone else who is on AWS (maybe because of rds postgres, or because it's client work that needs to be on AWS),

Agreed. I'm on GCP whenever I get to pick. For anyone else who is on AWS (maybe because of rds postgres, or because it's client work that needs to be on AWS), you can go outside of vanilla AWS to get a similarly great dev UX. I've used Convox + the Weave ECS AMI on a project, and it was pleasant.