[codegeek]

I donno. I am looking for a simpler solution on top of AWS that abstracts away setting up the services with configuration but doesn't necessarily use containers for everything and def. not Kubernetes.

Is this not desirable for others ? All the solutions that I see are focussed on containerizing (I get that to an extent). But I would personally want a service on top of AWS that abstracts away setting up EC2, load balancers, auto scaling, RDS etc etc. Does it have to be kubernetes ?

[dgivney]

It sounds like you might benefit from AWS Beanstalk which feels like a configuration widget built on top of CloudFormation - https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

Choose your stack and beanstalk deploys to a load balanced, autoscaling group in your VPC. You can attach a RDS when you choose your stack. And all resources can be managed separately or through CloudFormation. Beanstalk also supports container deployments.

From the website > "You can simply upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring. At the same time, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application and can access the underlying resources at any time. There is no additional charge for Elastic Beanstalk - you pay only for the AWS resources needed to store and run your applications."

[latebird22]

That's exactly the idea with SetOps: using all these components under the hood but abstracting it for the user with a much simpler management. You could give it a try in the demo environment if you like.