What I find more worrying is that incubators and VCs now often push it. One of a disturbing metric for a known incubator (cannot name them) is how fast you burn

What I find more worrying is that incubators and VCs now often push it. One of a disturbing metric for a known incubator (cannot name them) is how fast you burn through your free $100k aws budget; if you don't do it fast enough, it is a metric for failure as far as they are concerned. And I see this a lot; this push to pump massive amounts in stuff that's not needed and probably never will be needed.