[alex_duf]

Yes if the goal is to archive stuff, event per event I'd use cloudwatch logs. You can create the stream you want in order to log to it.

It's probably cheaper but lambdas and s3 are equally dirt cheap so hey why not.

Edit: Two possibilities here. Either the choice of technology is deliberate and there's a reason I can't quite figure out, or AWS has reached that state where they do so much it's really really hard for people to know what service to use for each problem.

Which actually makes me wonder what am I doing right now that could be done easily using a pre-baked AWS solution?

[mooreds]

I teach some AWS courses and that's something I always bring up: if you have a system you are thinking of building it always makes sense to see if AWS has a prebaked solution and evaluate it. The solution may not meet your needs but is likely to be available at a price/performance ratio (especially considering fully weighted operational costs) that will make it compelling if it does meet the requirements.