I agree. My personal list of stuff I like using at Amazon 1. S3 +cloudfront (but I still use cloudflare for ddos) 2. Ec2 3. Pg aurora 4. Sqs is a few cases, but

I agree. My personal list of stuff I like using at Amazon 1. S3 +cloudfront (but I still use cloudflare for ddos) 2. Ec2 3. Pg aurora 4. Sqs is a few cases, but generally i use redis for queueing 5. Lambda for tiny notifications usually to sqs if s3 gets dinged Unlike the author I'm not afraid of lambda but generally prefer containers for apps