Starting simple isn't putting all your eggs in one basket. In fact it's such a common recommendation (and so commonly forgotten about) that there are several ph

Starting simple isn't putting all your eggs in one basket. In fact it's such a common recommendation (and so commonly forgotten about) that there are several phrases designed just to teach this one lesson: KISS - Keep it simple, silly YAGNI - You ain't gonna need it MVP - Minimum viable product Overengineering Real artists ship I'm sure there's a ton more examples but that's just off the top of my head. Point is, until you know that you need high availability and multi-zone disaster recovery and etc etc, just engineer it for the problems you actually have.