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Lots of places (Hetzner for example) will rent you servers at 10-25% the cost of AWS if you want dedicated hardware, without the ability to autoscale. You can even set up a K8s cluster there if the overhead is worth it.

[intelVISA]

Fond memories of Hetzner asking for my driving license as ID for renting a $2 VPS. Lost a customer for life with that nonsense.

[perihelions]

Also lost a customer for life here. In my case they asked to let an AI scan my face through a webcam.

Nah.