AWS has a large learning curve, for sure. I've been using it now for several years as an admin for some scientific applications that present web frontends to cu

AWS has a large learning curve, for sure. I've been using it now for several years as an admin for some scientific applications that present web frontends to customers. A few notes: - for personal or small stuff I'd recommend Lightsail instead of EC2. - set budgets so that aws turns off your services if you go over. - never expose your ssh port to the public internet. Lock it down with firewall rules from the outset. Lightsail does this by default. - I'd still not use AWS if it was my money at stake. I have not screwed up yet, but it always feels possible. - I've had to remediate at least one account whose app and architecture were incredibly poorly designed and were costing over $500k/pa when they should have been designed differently and cost no more than about $1k/pa (less again these days) for function, user load and security. AWS made those poor design decisions easy because those who built it could spin up anything and everything with no second thoughts.