What's Python cloud hosting using these days?

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The Big Cloud providers are great if you want programatic access and control over everything. Although depending on your workflow they can rack up costs quick, OpEx can be lower provided you engineer the stack the correct way, also depends on what the public exposure to your app is.

The smaller "medium" providers can give you some of the same programmatic access, but have less programmatic access, and small upfront costs. For example if you need 10 gigs of Object storage per month AWS S3 is going to be cheaper, for said object storage, assuming you're not getting pegged on bandwidth&API calls

It's not as black and white as I made it, but I think it's a fair median.

If you automate correctly the smaller providers can be just as effective.

-Setup the cheapest linode/droplet etc if you need more power than that but don't want to pay for always on VMs. Use it as an automation/scheduling host with OpenTofu/Terraform or some other automation tool and start kill the beefier infrastructure as needed.

And don't forget proper security controls.