I agree that a startup shouldn't (yet) put a lot of time into redundancy if they don't have a product or customers. But a code pipeline that can be used to quic

I agree that a startup shouldn't (yet) put a lot of time into redundancy if they don't have a product or customers. But a code pipeline that can be used to quickly develop, test and deploy is essential. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using containers. In fact, in 20 years in tech, it's the best packaging solution I've seen. As for Kubernetes, as long as you're not managing the backend, it's fine. I joined a tiny startup less than a year ago, set up EKS with Terraform and created CI automation to build and push containers when tests pass. It's not hard. And it does encourage good practices. If we had to move everything to Azure or GCE, it would be much easier to do so because we haven't painted ourselves into the AWS corner.