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> I’ve found the serverless framework with Lambda to be quite straight forward.

Lambdas are great, and they do borrow much from the ideals of PaaS, including the lack of load balancing or HTTP servers. However, there are so many other extremely common services that Lambdas don't cover, for example: email, background tasks, memcache, databases, search engines, security, and so much more. Nearly every web app needs all of these services, but no one is building a single platform that does all of these things decently well out of the box. Instead, you're pushed towards using a different tool for each one. These custom tools certainly offer more power and control, but having to go chase and evaluate each one is a huge road-block for smaller projects that just want to get off the ground.