tmshkr

It might be because the target customer of AWS is a large, sprawling IT department, where having separate databases could be a good idea.

Exactly. We’re talking about software architecture for startups here. Best to keep it simple.

What is wrong with sharing a single database between services?

Seems like a pretty commonly accepted pattern:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/mod...

I think I'm locked in at the old price, thankfully.

The Daily Notes are essential, especially with templates.

You can do all of this in https://noteplan.co/

https://stackedit.io/ works great for this