Simple, you pay for a PaaS. I know this is unpopular but it is why platform as a service exists — to abstract away the typical configuration patterns and let somebody else deal with the devops overhead.
Not at all unpopular, but they just seem to tackle a single application and maybe a database...
But AWS Beanstalk, Heroku, Fly.io,... They got the CD, autoscaling, iaas down, but have multiple applications talking to eachother and you're back to managing them manually it seems.
Clicking together some apps in a GUI is nice for some random tests, but I want some kind of manifest that can be promoted between environments.
Clicking together some apps in a GUI is nice for some random tests, but I want some kind of manifest that can be promoted between environments.