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AWS is overwhelming for most of Developers. Also vercel is focusing on ease of deployment for front end, it is also zero config, you can just deploy nextjs, react, svelte, remix apps in matter of minutes. Which is impossible with AWS


I've started playing with AWS App Runner (https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/) which makes things fairly simple. You just point to a github repo, tell it the build command and the run command and it will deploy your project in containers and even load balance and scale up automatically.

Now it's not fully baked yet. DNS configuration is broken if you want to use your own domain (see https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/37 and https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/65 ) but you can get around that by putting cloudFront in front with just a few more clicks (and you get the benefit of having some of your files cached if you want).


AWS Amplify Hosting is the direct Vercel competitor and has improved since it's initial launch quite a bit. Also has a decent free tier




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