If you start designing into the future, you are now trying to make it good before making it work. Making it work means you start with barebones, just to have a

If you start designing into the future, you are now trying to make it good before making it work. Making it work means you start with barebones, just to have a proof of concept that runs, is accessible, is secured, even if you have to click things together and manually ssh into EC2s to launch code. Once you have everything working, then the bigger design should be a lot clearer, in terms of what you have to do to make it good.