This is a great article!<p>I see a lot of pessimism about AWS in this thread but its unfounded.<p>The sheer number of success stories on AWS at every scale is amazing. This guide demonstrates the diverse set of services AWS offers for customers from zero to Netflix. AWS is world-class engineering and operations that can be summoned by a single API call.<p>There might be ways to cut monthly costs on other providers, but many people forget to factor in your time to research, design stand up and operate software. I&#x27;d go all in on SQS, with all it&#x27;s design quirks and potential costs, over rolling my own RabbitMQ cluster on Digital Ocean any day.<p>I&#x27;m biased, working full time on open source tools to help beginners on AWS at Convox (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;convox&#x2F;rack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;convox&#x2F;rack</a>), but frankly there&#x27;s not a better time to build and scale your business on AWS. The platform is pure productivity with very little operational overhead.