Is the Lag from spawning server side entities we are all having, due to AWS limitations or is it like the old HP Microservice Mess? "Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters - Jimmy Bogard" It's a good watch on youtube Aside from the obvious... (politics) Why are you using AWS? could you move away from consumer platforms? and use your own platforms? These cloud platforms aren't really needed for this kind of project.... Why not run your own responsive platforms, servers and the respective infrastructure... It's quite cheap and the performance gains are exponentially better... An example free open source platform... https://github.com/microsoft/service-fabric mmm decent microservice performance..... yum yum