> I actually have walked away from offers where the company was "on AWS" but all they were doing was running a bunch of EC2 instances and hosting everything the

> I actually have walked away from offers where the company was "on AWS" but all they were doing was running a bunch of EC2 instances and hosting everything themselves and expected their developers to be on call for infrastructure failures. In addition to wasting engineer time and sanity, this is bad for the bottom line. Hardware fails, and if new hardware doesn’t cause systems to auto failover, you lose revenue, customers and trust. If you don’t autoscale, your service degrades when you need it most and you lose new customers and business when you get spiky load. With all the advances in things like fargate and Aurora Serverless, it doesn’t make sense not to use these. The baseline cost is ~$200/mo for a setup that doesn’t go down when hardware fails or get slow when you get an influx of users. And it’s straightforward to set up.