There are a few advantages. Not worrying about maintaining and securing underlying infrastructure is huge. Not worrying about load balancing logic is helpful. Having isolated blast radius of application failures is nice. Overprovisioning can be a real problem depending on the underlying machines.
And then when you get into the surrounding services and features you really start to feel the benefits. Want to have canary deployments? Want to have a queue of failed events? Want to start piping data into a data lake for future analytics? Need to introduce a decoupling message queue in front of an expensive operation? All of it is almost turnkey.
And then when you get into the surrounding services and features you really start to feel the benefits. Want to have canary deployments? Want to have a queue of failed events? Want to start piping data into a data lake for future analytics? Need to introduce a decoupling message queue in front of an expensive operation? All of it is almost turnkey.