Not every product needs AZ from the start (specially for small teams or solopreneurs), in most cases you'll be doing over-engineering. And in the use cases you need AZs and do it right new tools like convox* are really easy to use and can save you a lot work. It's never been this easy to manage your own infrastructure.
During the years I've used ssh, puppet, fabric, ansible, capistrano, cloud formation, etc for managing servers and infrastructure. And I think that the main benefit of any PaaS, AWS Lambda or AWS API Gateway is (obviously) that they're time saving and abstract the internals. In fact I use them in several small projects.
During the years I've used ssh, puppet, fabric, ansible, capistrano, cloud formation, etc for managing servers and infrastructure. And I think that the main benefit of any PaaS, AWS Lambda or AWS API Gateway is (obviously) that they're time saving and abstract the internals. In fact I use them in several small projects.
* https://www.convox.com