This is what I mean by "hobbyist mindset": driving straight past the huge neon sign flashing TCO, assuming that some idiot (that's me) has failed arithmetic 101

This is what I mean by "hobbyist mindset": driving straight past the huge neon sign flashing TCO, assuming that some idiot (that's me) has failed arithmetic 101 (totally possible, my undergraduate mathematics ruined me for sums, isn't everything an infinite series?), and blithely disregarding the cost and time I'll need to obtain authorisation to establish a new commercial relationship, authorisation from legal and security to have our IP and/or customer data in yet another facility, then the overhead of managing the technical and billing elements, and the compliance reporting, and so on. So yes, AWS is still a shoo-in. Don't even get me started on the data sovereignty and latency issues of a self-proclaimed "global" hosting provider that's only on two continents, neither of which we are operating in.