> overwhelming and complex AWS Any other systems a "20 something person" would cobble together for an app of any complexity from "toys" of today would be a com

> overwhelming and complex AWS Any other systems a "20 something person" would cobble together for an app of any complexity from "toys" of today would be a complex web of half solutions. They'd be trying to do the same stuff that can be done within AWS, and often what they cobble together would be worse off having it made of disparate components from maybe dozens of different vendors. I can't see how it's any easier to connect all those dots than it is to do it within AWS. If you're new and doing simple stuff on simple systems that's all well and good, but don't expect it to scale easily or at all, and if you try you're in for a whole lot of dev-ops and networking and other bullshit just to get things to talk to each other. There's a lot less of that in AWS. Usually you just copy an ARN and paste it into another box, and the things are connected. >Barriers to entry are something you have to consider. There's no barrier to entry for AWS, unless you can't afford $0 per month. Anyone can sign up and use free services, and they are very well documented. There's tutorials galore, probably more than any other current toy platform(s). There's tools and tooling and all kinds of support out there for it. But sure, some toy platform might be more fun to use for your hello-world task tracking app if you aren't building anything serious.