I'm migrating my last AWS services to dedicated servers with Gitops. In principle, AWS give you a few benefits that are worth paying for. In practice, I have seen all of them to be massive issues. Price and performance are obviously bad. More annoying than that, their systems have arbitrary limitations that you may not be aware of because they're considered 'corner cases' -- e.g. my small use-case bumped against DNS limitation and the streaming of replies was not supported. Then, you have a fairly steep learning curve with their products and their configuration DSLs.

There are Gitops solution that give you all the benefits that are promised by it, without any of the downsides or compromises. You just have to bite the bullet and learn kubernetes. It may be a bit more of a learning curve, but in my experience I would say not by much. And you have much more flexibility in the precise tech stack that you choose, so you can reduce it by using stuff you're already know well.