Amen.
I've consulted for companies that went all in on AWS Lambda + AWS SQS, only to transition them to an EC2 instance that performs the same computations at a fraction of the cost.
No — you do not need K8 on day one.
I've consulted for companies that went all in on AWS Lambda + AWS SQS, only to transition them to an EC2 instance that performs the same computations at a fraction of the cost.
No — you do not need K8 on day one.
And typically with much lower latency/request times.
GCP functions, AWS Lambdas, etc... my anecdotal experience is that they are way slower for request times vs a $20 VPS running the exact same workload.
I assume you just dropped a shit ton of features on your move to that EC2 instance unless of course you wasted more time then it would take to get everything working better on Lambda/SQS.