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all those things you described are a non issue if you use AWS Api gateway and Lambda. I'm struggling to understand why acknowledging these things is so much of a cognitive load for you.

In addition you can use Pulumi, Terraform, CDK but you could just do it from the web console and then generate those.

I don't know for me these are not enough of a pain for me to move off AWS.

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Lemme put it this way. You know how people pay accountants to do their taxes or get a plumber to repair their sink? They can all be done theoretically by the user but it costs time to fix + time to learn about how to fix.

That's why people pay a premium for vercel(and other similar services like heroku) for hosting.

still not sold here. your analogy is misconstrued because those separate roles cannot be performed by one person in the first place whereas AWS is simply a matter of reading the documentation and building a knowledge of its architecture which compromises of many interconnected products. This is just how lot of enterprises function and AWS reflects this.

If you are starting out in AWS and you are overwhelmed its understandable but the if barrier to entry to Vercel is much lower you are not going to be differentiating yourself in the job market either.

The cost savings in the long run of having good AWS knowledge is always going to shine over whatever short term cognitive lift perceived by inexperienced AWS devs.

I would actually put Vercel in a lower tier of cloud practioners. For startups, that might be just what you need since there is a 99% chance you won't ever hit its unlimited tier limits (hyperbole).

In the time you've spent arguing about Vercel on here you could have actually tried it out and then you'd actually have your own opinion based on genuine experience.

I've used AWS Lambda professionally for years, Vercel is a totally different beast. I recently span-up a hobby project recently on Vercel rather than AWS Lambda (using Serverless Framework) to try out next.js and it took about 10 minutes to get it working whereas AWS Lambda would have taken a lot longer.

As an executive I need to carefully assess an offering by thinking of everything. Your reasoning is "shut up and use it". This is not how you convince c-suites.

If you've been really using Lambda on AWS and still struggling with IAM/VPC I would have to chalk this up as not amazon's fault

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