I Deploy Next.js on a Single EC2 Instance. Here's Why.

We're DevOps engineers. We just launched a Next.js app. We could've gone full ECS, Fargate, the whole AWS stack — instead, we put Coolify on a single EC2 instance. In this video, I break down why we chose Coolify over Vercel and ECS for our launch, what the actual setup looks like, and when this approach makes sense (and when it doesn't). Timestamps: 0:19 - Why we didn't over-engineer our launch 1:11 - Why not Vercel? 2:40 - Why AWS at all 3:07 - Why not ECS / Fargate? 4:15 - The actual setup 4:52 - Adding services Coolify: https://coolify.io TopoReady: https://topoready.com #devops #nextjs #aws #coolify #vercel #ecs #ec2 #selfhosted #webdev