&gt; if you&#x27;re under 1K users AWS probably isn&#x27;t the best solution - conventional VPS hosting is usually more cost effective.<p>You should amend that to say AWS <i>EC2</i> isn&#x27;t the best solution. Unless you&#x27;ve got some pretty high utilization (either CPU or bandwidth out) of that conventional VPS host, you can buy a lot of API Gateway&#x2F;Lambda for the $10&#x2F;mo you pay for your VPS host and get higher availability and scalability basically free.