I used AWS because of PCI compliance, and it was HELL. It took a whole week to set up a simple EKS cluster for one basic Rails app. Everything is ridiculously

I used AWS because of PCI compliance, and it was HELL. It took a whole week to set up a simple EKS cluster for one basic Rails app. Everything is ridiculously complicated, and the docs are terrible. When the Log4j exploit occurred, I had to go and figure out how to search the logs. I had to request them to make an update manually, and it took them 3 days to do it! Cloudwatch is terrible. EKS UX is terrible. Unless you want to have a full-time job of wasting time with AWS, stay away! Cost is horrible as well. Heroku was $7/month and AWS around $80. Fortunately there are several good options. After seeing HN posts recently, fly.io seems popular.