> Well now you're deep into Terraform or CloudFormation, setting up API Gateway, building an authorizer, coming up with an API Schema, wiring up everything with IAM, setting up Route 53 and Certificate Manager, building CloudWatch Dashboards, etc etc.
No, not really. You only use any of that if that's what you want to do. You can use a EC2 instance and do everything yourself, if that's your thing.
I mean, let's go through your list. CloudFormation is just infrastructure as code. It helps treat your deployments as cattle, but you aren't forced to use it, right? And you only need an API gateway if you want to put together an API using Amazon's proprietary stuff. Nothing forces you to do that, right? And you only need Route53 if you feel the need to manage a DNS and do stuff as DNS-based routing. And dashboards is just to show metrics in a way that fits your need.
From these services, which ones are a must-have? None.
> Back in days past you'd rent a hosted server (...)
Your "back in the day" is "right now" if you want to. You can fire up an EC2 instance, open a port, and done. Why are you leaving this out, and instead opt to misrepresent extras as required?
Hell, AWS also offers lightsail, and you can use S3 to run static sites directly. Both are far simpler than managing your own VM or baremetal service. Why are you leaving that out?
And why do you leave out the fact that with API Gateway and lambdas you can setup a fully versioned API with multiple endpoints in a few minutes? You don't even need to deploy anything as you can write the controllers for each route directly in the dashboard. If reaching an MVP instantly is what you really want, it's weird you leave that out.
> No such thing exists in today's era of subscription-model infrastructure.
I regret to tell you that you don't know what you're talking about. Even in AWS, where they try to upsell you everything, you can easily ramp up a VM, open a port, and do everything you need by ssh-ing into a linux box. And AWS is not alone on it. You can do the same on pretty much any cloud vendor. Say Hetzner: you can rent a baremetal box for around 30€ a month and leave it at that. If you prefer VMs you can get one for 3€ month. What's stopping you?
I don't think parent doesn't know this can still be done; it's just that culturally this is not valued anymore and it's often not taught to beginners.
The same thing happened on frontend: all the juniors bootcampers' only experience of doing frontend development is running create-react-app and hacking away at React.
Before that it was angular.
Everybody would frown at deploying a pure frontend js app or a jQuery app, in the same way most people would frown at deploying a PHP script on Apache.
Despite this, a huge portion of the internet runs on PHP and jQuery (including shiny new things, like levels.io's million making 1-2 men saas).
No, not really. You only use any of that if that's what you want to do. You can use a EC2 instance and do everything yourself, if that's your thing.
I mean, let's go through your list. CloudFormation is just infrastructure as code. It helps treat your deployments as cattle, but you aren't forced to use it, right? And you only need an API gateway if you want to put together an API using Amazon's proprietary stuff. Nothing forces you to do that, right? And you only need Route53 if you feel the need to manage a DNS and do stuff as DNS-based routing. And dashboards is just to show metrics in a way that fits your need.
From these services, which ones are a must-have? None.
> Back in days past you'd rent a hosted server (...)
Your "back in the day" is "right now" if you want to. You can fire up an EC2 instance, open a port, and done. Why are you leaving this out, and instead opt to misrepresent extras as required?
Hell, AWS also offers lightsail, and you can use S3 to run static sites directly. Both are far simpler than managing your own VM or baremetal service. Why are you leaving that out?
And why do you leave out the fact that with API Gateway and lambdas you can setup a fully versioned API with multiple endpoints in a few minutes? You don't even need to deploy anything as you can write the controllers for each route directly in the dashboard. If reaching an MVP instantly is what you really want, it's weird you leave that out.
> No such thing exists in today's era of subscription-model infrastructure.
I regret to tell you that you don't know what you're talking about. Even in AWS, where they try to upsell you everything, you can easily ramp up a VM, open a port, and do everything you need by ssh-ing into a linux box. And AWS is not alone on it. You can do the same on pretty much any cloud vendor. Say Hetzner: you can rent a baremetal box for around 30€ a month and leave it at that. If you prefer VMs you can get one for 3€ month. What's stopping you?