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I'm involved in building a backend right now for which I chose to use AWS ECS with Fargate containers for deployment, over some managed Kubernetes service like AWS EKS which would have been my first choice. Using ECS has been dirt cheap (<$5pcm) whereas AWS EKS is ~$75pcm per cluster, before you even start running any containers. I'm not completely sure it was the right decision as it's involved having to spend time getting familiar with ECS, but it seems to work well enough and cheaply for something which isn't making money yet. I probably could have provisioned a Kubernetes cluster myself using something like kops but didn't want to deal with the headache.

Another one is using Heroku (~$7pcm) over Vercel (~$20pcm) for deploying a simple website/CMS for a business (and therefore not eligible for Vercel's free hobby tier). I initially wanted to use Vercel but Heroku is actually fantastic if you're developing solo and don't need all the bells and whistles Vercel provides.




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