claude-code-as-ops-team-invalidates-managed-services-choice

When Claude Code has SSH access to an environment, self-hosted Docker infrastructure outperforms managed cloud services (Fargate, RDS, ElastiCache). Managed services remove SSH access, direct Docker management, exec-into-container capability, and live cron control — all capabilities Claude Code relies on to operate autonomously. The correct architecture for ‘Claude Code IS the ops team’ is EC2 + Docker Compose, not serverless managed services.