Comment by dijit

Ok let me try this, because I can assure you my intent is not to throw some sort of "gotcha" in here. I'm thinking about this purely from my own personal usecase, and right now as far as I'm aware theres no AWS alternative in the EU that can do all this for me. Nothing I am using here relies on some sort of obscure feature of each service at all.

My usecase is:

- MySQL (using Aurora but really dont need to), hands off like it is on RDS so yeah a managed service would be preferred.

- 2x VM instances with internal networking and an EFS drive connecting the two (The efs drive is critical for a ton of applications)

- Load balancer

- S3 + Cloudfront for CDN

And a few more bits I appreciate are very niche to my usecase but would be nice to keep under the same vpc:

- SQS queue workers (can switch to something redis based if needed)

- SES mail service (again can switch to another 3rd party as i doubt many people offer this)

- Lambda for some app specific background processing

Hopefully this kinda explains my position. Yes, I can split a lot of this out into multiple individual providers who specialise in just that one thing. And perhaps that's the way to go. But I dont think you can deny it's a heck of a lot more convenient to have all of it in one place.