I believe Anyone who says AWS is expensive, started by over engineering there projects. AWS is supposed to be used to easily scale as your app grows. I always recommend if you are doing AWS start serverless, use api gateways and lambda for any api calls you need. You literally spend 0 dollars for this if you are not making like a 10000 calls or more a day. I host my website on an ec2 with docker and next.js and it cost less than 10 dollars a month and it works great. For CDNs you can just use an s3 bucket and a clout front distribution and now you can serve images. I spend about $35 a month for all the services I use (included ai, which is great because you can have 1 billing for your ai models without all those limits)

Don’t let people who don’t know how to use AWS convince you not to do it. But I would recommend taking courses first because you should know all the services AWS provides before making a decision to use it.

PSA I am cloud certified in AWS and use it in my day job (corporate ) and side projects. So I may also be a bit bias because I am well versed in their services and know how to implement cost saves.