What would you say if they ask about AWS?
Localhost is a real demo. If they ask "how does this look on AWS?" you tell the truth — you name only what you ran.
| What you ran | What you might say later |
|---|---|
| Express on EC2 | EC2, maybe ECS later |
| Neon | RDS when the budget exists |
| JWT you wrote | Cognito, maybe |
| SES | SES. You already did this |
| GitHub | public repo you can show |
| GitHub Actions | push writes .env, restarts pm2 |
Don't invent Cloudflare or Traefik. Slide 1 is the honest sketch. RDS is a sentence for later, not something you fake today.