Definitely agree on just spinning up a free tier VM for very mild use cases or for a jump box or testing, or for troubleshooting network/provider/access issues.

Definitely agree on just spinning up a free tier VM for very mild use cases or for a jump box or testing, or for troubleshooting network/provider/access issues. Google's always(?)-free tier 600M F1 Micro instance works nicely for this. Be aware only 1G transfer in the free tier though.