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It seems like another case of the road to hell being paved with good intentions, most places want/need redundancy and some managed devops and so a few ec2 instances and managed RDS is affordable enough and checks a lot of boxes, but after people start down this path it seems almost irresistible to start drilling down into managed kubernetes, spark jobs, to start ingesting some events we'll just introduce glue, and that plugs right into S3, and look how easy it is to plug in athena, add some quick alerting with cloudwatch, and the next thing you know you're vendor locked and having to hire a full time devops person with AWS experience to configure, manage and keep on top of it all.