[codethief]

To play the devil's advocate here:

> I aim to keep everything I’m working on using the simplest services possible, essentially treating AWS like it’s Digital Ocean or Linode with a stupidly complex control panel.

What's the benefit of AWS then, if you're not using any of the managed services AWS offers, and are instead treating AWS as an (overly expensive) Digital Ocean or Linode?

[clepto]

I’m arguing there’s not a benefit, it’s just the service I have to use for reasons outside of my control.