These hands-off solutions might be expensive in operational/dev time as well. You might end spend days coding against the arbitrary limitation of managed servic

These hands-off solutions might be expensive in operational/dev time as well. You might end spend days coding against the arbitrary limitation of managed services or debugging cryptic errors in the distributed application. My experience with lambda as an application platform is pretty bad. EC2 instance gives you plenty of technical flexibility that startup needs as much as velocity to find a market fit.