AWS Serverless: Still the Boring Correct Choice

In the last 6 months, I&rsquo;ve helped 3 AI startups migrate from Vercel or Cloudflare to AWS Lambda . The pattern is the same: they start on a platform with great DX. Then the wall shows up: background jobs, retries, queues, cron, and eventually a &ldquo;this endpoint needs 2-8 GB RAM for 4-10 minutes&rdquo; workload — and they land on AWS. To be fair: Vercel and Cloudflare captured developer…