BTW, EB (Elastic Beanstalk) is generally viewed as just for those getting started, but I've seen companies build really serious stuff (and at significant scale) on it, including an extremely high performance distributed IoT time series database (that was 10 years ago, back before there were good time series DBs to just use).

AWS doesn't push EB much, partly because it does offer great value and doesn't make them nearly as much money as things like FarGate or AppSync. If you need something that just does what really needs doing cheaply and well, though, give it another look.

AppRunner is great while being cheaper than Fargate, but it is not cheaper than its NewCloud counterparts like fly.io and render.com. Not sure if railway.app is, 'cause I never could wrap my head around their pricing model. Lightsail Containers are a credible alternative, too.

Whereas, Lambda / Lambda@Edge / CloudFront Functions are of course wayyyyy more expensive (even if more capable) than workers.dev.