[eranation]

Two points (worked at AWS for 5 years and then left to start a company, which runs on AWS)

- Yes, if you don’t have AWS, Azure or GCP experience it can be hard. Harder than it should be. But this is why I try to make things simple. Run node / express in lambda. Use managed services. Use CDK so the IaC abstraction is easier. Definitely not 4 weeks for the IAM policies.

- You get tons of credits as a VC backed startup (in all providers) so cost is not that much of an initial issue

- Yes you need to pay attention on the expenses, setup budgets and budget alarms, and run cost optimizers often