While it’s a good idea to lay out a vision for the future of infrastructure as a service, it’s annoying to read this sort of article that seems to believe it ought to be simple to provide true serverless magical on-demand resources for random code. Fact is it’s a lot more complicated than that unless you’re just a small fry without any really hard problems to solve.

It’s silly to complain that AWS doesn’t have a service that allows any random programmer to deploy a globally scalable app with one click. For one thing, you aren’t AWS’s primary target audience. For two, the class of problems that can be solved with such simple architectures is actually pretty small. But for three, it’s not actually even possible to do what you’re asking for any random code unless you are willing to spend a really fantastic amount of money. And even then once you get into the realm of a serious number of users or a serious scale of problem solving, then you’ll be back into bespoke-zone, making annoying tradeoffs and having to learn about infra details you never wanted to care about. Because, sorry, but abstraction is not free and it’s definitely not perfect.