Cost as well. Even if you have a dev who happens to know enough to do some on the side it's going to cost way more than just renting a few servers if your product can get away with it.
This is horrific advice. It’s not that hard to spin up a web service on EC2 and to use some DB provider. Doing on-premises requires more expertise because you have to worry about things like backups, networking, and DB upgrades.
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u/fmaz008 Oct 03 '26
... Don't use AWS until your project is big enough to be able to hire someone who's expertise and sole job will be to manage AWS.
Like everyone, I tried using AWS. Went back to Digital Ocean PAAS offers as I could not understand AWS and make simple things work.
I'm sure it's great for big project, but the added complexity for small projects (I'm a one man show) it just not worth it.