I think there is a middleground that to me it seems like this over simplifies both sides of this. For many of the "complex" things like lambdas there are frame

I think there is a middleground that to me it seems like this over simplifies both sides of this. For many of the "complex" things like lambdas there are frameworks like Serverless that makes managing and deploying it as easy (if not easier frankly) than static code on a VM. Not every workload also scales at the same time, we have seen new things that got very successful and crashed right out the door because it could not properly scale up. I agree that you don't need an over engineered "perfect" infrastructure, but just saying stick it on a VM also seems like it is too far of a swing in the other direction. That ignores the cost side of running several VM's vs the cost of smaller containers or lambdas that only run when there is actual use. Plus there is something to be said about easier local development which some things like Serverless and containers give you. You may not need to setup a full k8s cluster, but if you are going with containers why would you run your own servers vs sticking the container in something managed like ECS.