I use the same stack most of the time in my professional work and I'm currently looking heavily at kubernetes to reduce the "size" of my smallest working deploy

I use the same stack most of the time in my professional work and I'm currently looking heavily at kubernetes to reduce the "size" of my smallest working deployment for complex systems. Instead of rolling several AWS autoscale groups or elastic beanstalk deployments, I'll simply deploy one autoscaling kubernetes cluster using the well supported tools for doing so, and then leverage the best of what AWS provides such as RDS, EBS, and most importantly for future rapid prototyping EFS, adding EFS as a shared flat file system across multiple automatically scaling docker containers is extremely effective for testing out ideas without the complexity of using S3. The unix philosophy of "it's all files" but at massive scales.