[kunley]

Right. Plus, large providers usually don't offer support for small-sized instances/containers/whatever, so even if you optimized your deployment to use less resources, you need to buy a bigger thing.

But to the main point: using an extra layer which is on the top of said large provider, like here Vercel over AWS, is not a solution, as this middle man also can be marginalized by the big bully at some moment.

This is why I prefer small providers, like Vultr. (Not affiliated with them in any way; just a happy customer).