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Some of these tasks are required when you run your service in Amazon Cloud as well. It's not all free and not all by default. You'll need someone experienced with Amazon Services to set up many of these things in the Amazon cloud as well.

Also, it's not like you need everything you mention and need it immediately.

NTP clock syncing is a part of any Linux distro for the last 20 years if not more.

I don't remember that Amazon automatically locks down SSH (didn't touch AWS for 7-8 years, don't remember such a feature out of the box 8 years ago).

Rolling web app deploys with rollback can be implemented in multiple ways, depends on your app, can be quite easy in some instances. Also, it's not something that Amazon can do for you for free, you need to spend some effort on the development side anyways, doesn't matter if you deploy on Amazon or somewhere else. There's no magic bullet that makes automatic rollback free and flawless without development effort.



Exactly. Well said.

A thing we learned in this process is that there's many levels of abstraction which you can think of rollback and locking down SSH and so on and so forth.

If your abstraction level is AWS and the big hyperscalers, it would be to use Kubernetes, but peeling layers of complexity off that, you could also do it with Docker Compose or even Linux programs that are really battle tested for decades.

Most ISO certified companies are not at hyperscale so here is a fun one: Instead of Grafana Agent from 2020, you could most likely get away better with rsyslog from 2004.

And if you want your EKS cluster to give you insights you have configure CloudWatch yourself so does what hands-off is there comparing that setup to Ubuntu+Grafana Agent?




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