One of the basic tenants of engineering is "why is this feature appropriate"; much of AWS can be sliced away with this razor, much of the time. Appropriate tool

One of the basic tenants of engineering is "why is this feature appropriate"; much of AWS can be sliced away with this razor, much of the time. Appropriate tool for the appropriate time. A lot of the AWS systems simply are special purpose and not good for general application. I'm working on a Kubernetes configuration at home that provides the common & popular features AWS in a consistent & portable manner: blob store, database, etc.