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ECS is great and simpler than k8s. Flightcontrol[1] is an easy way to spin up and deploy to ECS clusters. (I'm a cofounder) [1] https://www.flightcontrol.dev/

OP here, these are some of the off-the-shelf options we've looked at so far and why they don't quite fit us: - https://www.flightcontrol.dev (looks great but pricing is out of our league + only support the provisioning of a limited set of AWS services which isn't necessary a deal-breaker) - https://flexstack.com/ (pricing + also seems to only support the provisioning of a limited set of AWS services) - https://seed.run/ (pricing but also more serviceless focused that we're looking for) - https://web.archive.org/web/20240114054135/https://www.withcoherence.c… (I've linked to the archive.org copy of their site because they've recently pivoted away from deployment management)

Since DHH has been promoting the 'do-it-yourself' approach, many people have fallen for it. You're asking the right questions that only a few people know they need answers to. In my opinion, the closest thing to "reclaiming the stack" while still being a PaaS is to use a "deploy to your cloud account" PaaS provider. These services offer the convenience of a PaaS provider, yet allow you to "eject" to using the cloud provider on your own should your use case evolve. Example services include https://stacktape.com, https://flightcontrol.dev, and https://www.withcoherence.com. I'm also working on a PaaS comparison site at https://paascout.io. Disclosure: I am a founder of Stacktape.

Aptible hosts (and pays for) AWS resources on your behalf, similar to Heroku/Render/Railway. Last year, we built support for integrating Aptible into your own AWS account, but only a handful of existing customers are currently using that, and it's not available in the product by default. I'd be interested to learn why you prefer this model. If you're willing to chat about it, my email is in my profile. Alternatively, have you checked out other PaaS-in-your-own-IaaS solutions like: - https://porter.run/ - https://www.flightcontrol.dev/ - https://coolify.io/ (OSS, not managed) These might not meet all your needs, and I think they're all relatively new.

https://flightcontrol.dev gives you some sort of `your own Heroku on your own AWS acct` very interesting concept, also can be a replacement for Heroku.

Maybe flight control: https://www.flightcontrol.dev/