I've set up and run my own physical Linux server as well as cloud ones and it may be easier to get a Linux box up and running with an application but to get it

I've set up and run my own physical Linux server as well as cloud ones and it may be easier to get a Linux box up and running with an application but to get it into a state I consider production ready it's much harder. With ECS (or similar offerings, I agree kubernetes can be overkill) you get logging, blue green deployments, permissions, secret management, scaling, and more built in. You don't need to worry about upgrading your server and there's a whole category of security issues you don't really need to worry about. I work in a space with some compliance requirements and I do not think we could meet them at the size that we are without offerings like this.