High level - running on AWS

[brianfeister]

I'm bootstrapping a solo project and had in mind AWS Amplify with a Next.js frontend. That context is meant to frame my question, which is simply, how much work is initial setup and what will my journey look like in terms of scaling and tuning? Presumably I can run a docker image on an ec2 instance, but when it gets into DynamoDB auto scaling and clusters with edge deployment in mind, I'm looking to understand in really vague terms, what kind of work (think big categorical "you should look into X") I should anticipate