Yeah I have been using Supabase recently and I really like it. You still get the “serverless” benefits but at the end of the day it is just a Postgres database with some plugins. It is super easy to figure out where the data is coming from/going to.

Meanwhile at work I have a cowoker who loves to create AWS soup where they use an assortment of lambdas/api gateways/sqs queues/sns topics to accomplish tasks such as taking files from one s3 bucket and putting them in another s3 bucket owned by a different team. Their justification of this was that it was generic so other teams could use it, but it is a pain to maintain and make changes to.