Discussion on: Wondering what's the best AWS service for this

[Carles Alcolea]

Yes, I have other stuff in there and keeping things centralized is comfy. I forgot the free forever tier from GCP... I may take a look.
I checked with Heroku and other things remaining the same, it was more expensive.

Thanks!

[rhymes]

I checked with Heroku and other things remaining the same, it was more expensive.

How much more expensive? Because if it's a few dollars every month and you save days of configuration and headaches it might be worth it :)

Other options:

• Google App Engine offers Node.js support with autoscaling. You can use Mongo

• Azure has a similar offer with App Service. Their Node/Mongo tutorial though uses CosmosDB which a globally distributed DB compatible with Mongo's API but definitely not cheap

• Zeit is a low cost alternative to deploy a node app: zeit.co/guides/deploying-a-mongodb...

[Carles Alcolea]

You are right. In this instance though it's now just a matter of pride, can't abandon because it's hard! :P

I checked again with GCP and I remember now why I left: the damn flexible vs standard environment. It's just not a good fit.

Besides, even if doesn't sound like it, I'm familiar with most AWS services. It's the DBMS that threw me off, but I'll just use EBS and DocumentDB.

Thanks for the help :)