I also considered AWS but then decided to go with Hetzner. For me it's a learning experience as well so I enjoy figuring out stuff. AWS would have cost 3-4x alt

I also considered AWS but then decided to go with Hetzner. For me it's a learning experience as well so I enjoy figuring out stuff. AWS would have cost 3-4x although I am using RDS for now. I have scripts but use Ansible to setup snapshots to spin new servers from. And Terraform to configure everything. The biggest downside as I see it, is that _if_ I had to scale up the stack there would be issues regarding auto-scaling and additional regions. However, Im not worried about that and if it happens, I probably have money to move back AWS - at least in part. So my advice is that if it works and the servers stay up - keep it. AWS is no silver bullet and moreover, if you have little to no revenue it's better to keep costs down. As a small company I think you get a little more lee-way also regarding server downtime.