In general, I agree but there's a lot of people "locked-in" to using their products so once a poor decision has been made, it's costly to move away from them.

In general, I agree but there's a lot of people "locked-in" to using their products so once a poor decision has been made, it's costly to move away from them. I signed up a personal Oracle Cloud account to make use of their always-free tier of VMs. I was lucky to be able to get 4 of the VM.Standard.A1.Flex instances which have been running fine for a couple of years now. I've heard various tales of people on the free tier getting instances/accounts deleted for having idle instances, but presumably my backup of them is enough to stop them from being registered as idle (I've got a couple of websites running on them too, but they're just for my use).