> Forget that all these things exist: ... Containers, Kubernetes, Docker.

Not sure how this guy can give this advice.

containers make rapid development so much easier. There's no distinction between your dev environment and your prod environment except for a couple properties/env variables and some scaling factors.

Also "no" to cloudformation and "yes" to terraform.

And if I were to write a simple application, I'd probably try with lambda next time around.