[burn1238a]

I think the more important part is the laundry list of frameworks, cloud services, etc. to manage, not the pleasure you draw from working with the services themselves.

If you get minimal returns for managing 5 extra services, it doesn't make sense most of the time.

I do agree though that the cost should not be the thing the poster brags about with this architecture. It's the tradeoff between simplicity, cost, and functionality.