If offloading things to Amazon is an option, why use a Raspberry Pi at all? Wasn't the sport of it to get it running on a Pi? If it only has to look like it's r

If offloading things to Amazon is an option, why use a Raspberry Pi at all? Wasn't the sport of it to get it running on a Pi? If it only has to look like it's run on a Raspberry Pi you might as well let it run Nginx as a reverse proxy to a discourse.org forum.