aws has too many knobs, presumably to satisfy the union of the needs of all the enterprise customers. that said, lambda+s3+dynamodb+ec2 are pretty good once you

aws has too many knobs, presumably to satisfy the union of the needs of all the enterprise customers. that said, lambda+s3+dynamodb+ec2 are pretty good once you tape over all the knobs that aren't needed. i work with them like this[1]. these days i build on aws and r2. aws for the nuts and bolts, r2 for high bandwidth egress. it's a perfect match. 1. https://github.com/nathants/libaws https://github.com/nathants/libaws