[AmericanChopper]

I don’t think AWS want you to use VPC at all. The Golden Path for serverless on AWS has always been “networkless”. If your use case fits into their stateless HTTP stack (API Gateway + Lambda + Dynamo + SQS...) then you’re gonna have a really easy time. The reason VPC is required is because not every use case is going to fit into that stack, and the fact that VPC functionality seems to be always just a little bit not good enough (in comparison) doesn’t make me think they’re pushing people towards it.

[zten]

They definitely do if you're trying to use things based on EC2 instances. The newest types of instances have been VPC-only for years now.

[AmericanChopper]

But if you’re using EC2, then you’ve already wandered far off the serverless path.