[bkq]

Have you considered spinning up a cheap Linux box from any VPS provider and deploying your own relational database of choice there? Sure, there will be more administrative overhead for you than there would be with managed solutions, but it will be cheaper in the long run. In your case it sounds like you might be better off just spinning up a weedy Linux box on DigitalOcean, or Vultr, or some other cloud provider and just use that.

[adamredwoods]

The Vultr that I use is US$5.50/month for always-on compute. I can put whatever I want on it. Vultr offers cheaper prices for older CPUs.

1 vCPU 1 GB 1.00 TB 25 GB $5 /mo $0.007 /hr

Vultr has one-click deploy containers.

[wingshayz]

True that could work. The overhead is what I'd like to avoid, but if it were minimal I'd take that over a giant cloud bill. Thanks