The only good thing about EC2 is reliability. You can get equivalent hardware for much cheaper elsewhere and save way more than 9$. Add some load balancing acr

The only good thing about EC2 is reliability. You can get equivalent hardware for much cheaper elsewhere and save way more than 9$. Add some load balancing across cheap hosts and you can achieve good reliability. I run things on Digital Ocean, hetzner, ovh, linode, fly: they all cause downtime from time to time. I have clients on azure / Aws / Google and it's a much rarer occurrence. Fly is definitely among the unreliable ones, so you're paying for a simplified deployment / ops experience here - the heroku model. Even at that, configuration is not the easiest and there are gotchas you need to know. Documentation is also pretty sparse and the example images were stale. Getting a build to work was a huge pain. The free offering is nice, but I'm not recommending it for production.