[Griffinsauce]

"not that difficult" is plainly untrue depending on skill level, even in the absolute best case it's miles away from the ease that is offered here.

I pushed a new proof of concept to Github yesterday and deployed it in literally 3 clicks on Vercel.

Please show how to do this with AWS.

Then take a look at the features like preview deployments, CDN, environment variables etc. Does your solution cover all of them with the same ease?

I think people are crazy to accept abstraction on the machine layer but keep reinventing the wheel for the infra in the middle. These services let's you focus on the actual product.