> The reason we see people overcomplicating everything to do with the web is that they follow advice from people with radically different requirements.
Or they've had cloud account managers sneaking into your C-suite's lunchtime meetings.
Other comments in this thread say they get directives to use AWS from the top.
Strangely that directive often comes with AWS's own architects embedded into your team and even more strangely they seem to recommend the most expensive server-less options available.
What they don't tell is you you'll be rebuilding and redeploying your containerised app daily with new Docker OS base images to keep up with the security scanners just like patching an OS on a bare metal server.
Different requirements, different skillsets, different costs, different challenges. AWS is only topically the same product as Hetzner, coming from someone who has used both quite a bit.
Strong agree. I hadn't seen your comment when I wrote this, below: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=45616366
TL;DR: Think of hosting providers like a pricing grid (DIY, Get Started, Pro, Team, Enterprise) and if YAGNI, don't choose it.
Any advice on price / performance / availability is meaningless unless you explain where you're coming from. The reason we see people overcomplicating everything to do with the web is that they follow advice from people with radically different requirements.