I used Sublime Text, then I switched to PHPStorm as I wanted more IDE help to speed up my work. I realised how much memory PHPStorm uses and tried to switch to Atom, only to realise it uses even more (!). Now I am back at Sublime Text, but I will give VSCode a try, if it consume too much memory, I'm out again.
To your question: I was against AWS as it complicates things too much In my opinion, but customers love the 'AWS' in the catalogue, so I use it for the brand purpose.