I need to say this because apparently nobody else will. If all your services deploy together, share a database, and cannot function independently, congratulations. You built a monolith with network latency. You made everything WORSE and called it architecture. I have seen this pattern so many times it physically hurts. Someone reads the microservices chapter of a software architecture book, gets excited, and spends six months breaking a perfectly functional monolith into 14 services that all call each other synchronously over HTTP. Nothing can handle a request without calling three other services first. A single database sits underneath all of them. And they all deploy at the same time because if you deploy one without the others, everything breaks. That is not microservices. That is a monolith with extra steps and a higher AWS bill. The ENTIRE point of microservices is independent deployability. Service A can ship a new feature without coordinating with Service B. If you cannot do this, you do not have microservices. You have a distributed system with all the downsides and none of the benefits. Shared database? That is a monolith. Your services are coupled at the data layer. Change a column name and watch five services explode. Synchronous HTTP calls for every operation? That is a monolith. One service goes down and suddenly your entire system is returning 500s. You added a network boundary to what used to be a function call. Brilliant. Coordinated deployments? That is a monolith. The deployment schedule IS the coupling. You are just doing it with Kubernetes instead of a single JAR file. Here is what actual microservices look like: each service owns its data. Communication is primarily asynchronous (events, message queues). Any service can be deployed independently without breaking anything else. Each service can be developed by a team that does not need to coordinate daily with other teams. If that does not describe your system, you do not have microservices. And that is FINE. A well-structured monolith is a perfectly valid architecture. It is simpler to develop, simpler to deploy, simpler to debug. Stop cargo-culting architectures from Netflix. You are not Netflix. You do not have Netflix problems. Ship the monolith. Make money. Refactor later if you actually need to scale independently.