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by gbro3n 1343 days ago
There is a middle way, just set your boundaries on which AWS services you want to use. 1 x EC2 server + 1 x application load balancer and a few S3 buckets works well for my hobby projects (ALB is just for multiple domain SSL and reverse proxy). You can run docker on the EC2 and deploy containers. Yes there is a small amount of setting things up in the AWS UI and some bash scripting for deployment, but then you'd have to configure your DNS and firewall somewhere with a VPS anyway.