AWS, Vercel, and Amdahl's Law

Many applications can be built and deployed with either a Vercel-based stack or an AWS-based one. Here's a rough view of some tradeoffs: AWS is feature-rich; Vercel has a smaller set of very well-functioning features. AWS gives you fine-grained control over all sorts of things, especially permissions; Vercel gives you strong performance over a smaller set of possible configurations. If you govern your builds with CDK1 in a reasonable way, your AWS-based builds will take a reasonable amount of time. Vercel builds tend to be much faster. This is nowhere close to a complete comparison of AWS and Vercel, and I'm sure many people would argue with some of those claims. It's even a bit of a category mistake to frame a comparison as "AWS vs. Vercel:" they do different things, and you can call AWS from a Vercel-governed project perfectly well.2 For present purposes, it's less important that I'm right and more important that I take the situation to be: AWS-with-CDK is a reasonable default I've…