People keep claiming that they use AWS because it's "easier than running my own server" and then I see them an hour later running into the most asinine and specialized issues and, honestly, I just do not believe them
@joepie91 In my experience, AWS's alleged easiness only becomes tanglible if you really want to scale up. Before that, running a server of your own, or hiring a couple of droplets from DigitalOcean, tends to make a lot more sense.
@joepie91 You don't have to be that big. I'd say, the boundary is at about the point where what you're doing doesn't fit into some 20–30 storebought PCs (or equivalent virtual machines) anymore. Or, as a special edge condition, if you occasionally, for a short while, need much more computing power than most of the rest of the time.