Don't most cloud providers have some kind of VM/VPS/whatever, that is essentially just a linux instance? It's not hard to just script setup and deployment.
Adding layers on top of serverless or whatever just to get back to that point seems dumb.
Adding layers on top of serverless or whatever just to get back to that point seems dumb.
Unless you're doing something very simple, there's a lot of wheel-reinvention involved in writing your own scripts when there's mature software and services available to manage infrastructure at scale.
And what you've said doesn't really address networking, storage allocation, and the many other things the cloud provider handles, which is not configured on the instance, but rather, by vendor-specific APIs.
At the end of the day using cloud native managed resources offer real advantages from time to market to pricing that we believe people should leverage as much as they can. Unfortunately it's also how you end up being locked in, so we are trying to tackle that.