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And I want it to be able to handle lots of connections. One server might not be enough, so it needs to scale. The process could also take a while, so I need a queue. Yeah I could setup, AWS API Gateway, SQS, ECS with Autoscaling etc. But that's a lot of boilerplate.

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You need to do the work and build it yourself, to answer your question. All those services are effectively “boilerplate” for manually standing up a server, setting up replication, etc. But you still need to configure AWS/GCP/DO to do whatever you need.

If it’s your first time doing it, then yeah you’ve got to read some documentation a bit and figure it out. It becomes much easier after the second and third time you do it, to the point where it can all be configured within a day.

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