Fully agree. Another point worth considering is costs. Cloud providers now let you use ephemeral VMs which are amazing in terms of value. If you can identify so

Fully agree. Another point worth considering is costs. Cloud providers now let you use ephemeral VMs which are amazing in terms of value. If you can identify some parts of your system that use too much in terms of resources you can get quite some nice costs savings by wrapping that around a microservice and deploy it in said cheap VMs.