Something worth mentioning, is that RHEL has a free Developer subscription, which includes 16 free dedicated devices. The only issue is that many cloud provide

Something worth mentioning, is that RHEL has a free Developer subscription, which includes 16 free dedicated devices. The only issue is that many cloud providers don't have RHEL as an OS option, so you can't use it on your average cheap VPS. That assumes you trust them not to do another rug pull (CentOS 8)