I spent a few evenings going the ECS route and the complexity and cost of just a single api available to the internet and a database kept ballooning to way more

I spent a few evenings going the ECS route and the complexity and cost of just a single api available to the internet and a database kept ballooning to way more than what I wanted to pay for and deal with. Fargate, image repo, NAT gateway, I don't even remember all the nonsense at this point but it was ridiculous. I took a look at a few alternatives and DigitalOcean's App service was night and day easier, faster, and cheaper to deal with.