[fimbulvetr]

This sounds like neophobia or NIH syndrome. What you're doing is almost exactly the same as a docker deployment, except you're missing the ability to have some declarative leverage and tagging (unless your place invented that for themselves as well). There very few unhackable things about a Docker/container image, and typically that's for the better. The other advantage is that once you start using docker images, you now have more or less portable infrastructure. EKS, ECS, Google Cloud Run, Heroku, and on and on and on... But then again, it takes some time to realize that serverless is an advantage because if you're still young or your company isn't strapped for cash, they're fine hiring people to stay on call through the night and manage servers and upgrades and so on. Me? My fargate tasks run on servers that never need reboots or upgrades.