For anyone doing this... look around. Tooling has only improved. We were able to cram a large set of applications into a group of instances using CapRover. I

For anyone doing this... look around. Tooling has only improved. We were able to cram a large set of applications into a group of instances using CapRover. Instead of 2-3 instances, and a whole bunch of RDS, we ended just recreating the databases there along with minio for storage (we write a small amount of data to S3 storage).