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When you have 10 boxes to manage doing it manually is within the realm of 1 person doing it and maybe even correctly! When you have 500... You will want consistency and repeatability. To this day I am still 'fixing' things someone did in the 10 machine area. 'oh yeah that machine is set up this way and the others are that way'. But I can not get rid of those 10 boxes because they became key infrastructure.

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we use elastic beanstalk which is functionally not that different than elastic container service/Fargate. It’s basically Heroku when all is said and done.

Everything sits behind application load balancer and API gateway, all basic stuff

We have about 100 boxes, but basically only 3 “environments” for our distributed monolith. Every box in a distinct environment is provisioned and configured in exactly the same way.

need to change some config? It’s at most a few extra clicks to do it in multiple environments. Then EB handles the rolling deployments and health check failover stuff. It’s very hands off, with another small benefit of not needing to bother with fudging around with terraform state, wasting compute on building containers and paying for registry storage.

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