If you want to easily hire people/ get experience for yourself, just use AWS. AWS is practically an industry standard tool. Of course you might be able to find

If you want to easily hire people/ get experience for yourself, just use AWS. AWS is practically an industry standard tool. Of course you might be able to find a slightly cheaper way to do things, but training people will be harder. The only time AWS doesn't make sense is when you hit the scale where it's not longer cost effective.