I don't understand why people keep doing this to themselves. OP is ex-Googler and we can surely state that he knows his way around tech. Why would you, as a sta

I don't understand why people keep doing this to themselves. OP is ex-Googler and we can surely state that he knows his way around tech. Why would you, as a startup, go on route of using convoluted mess of tech that every cloud provider is, instead of buying cheap dedicated server, setting your own k8s or whatever and just using that platform for your project. Cloud solutions are immensely and, for most cases, unnecessary complicated. In addition to that, they have the ability to kill any dream of yours with invoice far exceeding your darkest forecasts in less than an hour. The time OP spent solving this issue could be better spent learning about self-hosting and avoiding this trouble all together.