If you need servers for the majority of your application, don't use AWS or any other mahor cloud provider. Their benefits come from economy of scale, so if you

If you need servers for the majority of your application, don't use AWS or any other mahor cloud provider. Their benefits come from economy of scale, so if you cannot be part of that economy, do something else. And you can be part of it really only by doing cloud native stuff like Lambda, DynamoDB et al.