Yeah that was really high level overview of very specific things. I'm not sure if people without any prior knowledge of aws are getting anything out of it. For

Yeah that was really high level overview of very specific things. I'm not sure if people without any prior knowledge of aws are getting anything out of it. For those who aren't familiar with aws i would recommend using most of the fully-managed services that aws offers. Then if you think you can save a buck by running your own databases you should go start considering them. Granted some aws services are not that great like EFS - it's just useless. But still dont go crazy with optimizing your cpu cycles. Sometimes it's just better to pay some extra for not having to spend hours debugging things that are not in the core of your business.