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/

You might like https://www.flightcontrol.dev which makes it easy to deploy servers or Lambdas. (I'm cofounder)

Hi, you might like https://www.flightcontrol.dev which fully automates production infra in your AWS. So you get to use your AWS credits, and you can even pay Flightcontrol with your credits, so it'll be 100% free.

Flightcontrol is very popular for Next.js deployments on AWS

*I'm cofounder of Flightcontrol

The problem with typical PaaS is significantly less reliability, higher costs, and limited flexibility than AWS for example.

But of course AWS is a nightmare on it's own.

So you might like Flightcontrol [1] which provides a PaaS user experience on your own AWS, thereby giving you the best of both worlds.

[1] https://www.flightcontrol.dev/

This isn't answering your question, but you might also want to consider https://www.flightcontrol.dev. Here's a comparison with Porter: https://www.flightcontrol.dev/porter-alternatives

Another option you might like is Flightcontrol[0]. It's similar to Porter, but newer and aims to make all the best AWS services as easy as PaaS. And unlike Porter, it doesn't charge more for horizontal and vertical scaling.

Today, the server deployments use Fargate, and are truly hands off just like PaaS. Soon we're launching ECS+EC2 support which will let you customize the EC2 instance type, use GPUs, and leverage reserved instances. ECS doesn't offer some advanced k8s features, but it's 80% or more of the benefit in an easier to use, cheaper package.

We commonly see Series A & B companies migrating off PaaS to Flightcontrol + AWS because they can keep the same workflows while gaining more reliability, control, and flexibility.

I'm cofounder, CEO. Let me know if you have any questions.

[0] https://www.flightcontrol.dev/