Compare / Cloud & Infrastructure / Infrastructure IaaS Infrastructure IaaS — hobby options. Tap any requirement to compare its recommended, free, cheaper and paid options with prices and honest notes on where each one differs. This is a read-only comparison — nothing is selected.
Compute VM Platform (Hypervisor / VM Provider) Block Storage / VM Disks (EBS/Persistent Disk equivalent) Object Storage for VM Images, ISOs & Backup Artifacts VPC Networking / Software-Defined Network (SDN) Load Balancer (L4 TCP/UDP + L7 HTTP/HTTPS for VM Pools) SSH Bastion / Privileged Access Management (PAM) Infrastructure Monitoring & Host Metrics (CPU/Mem/Disk/Net) Secrets Management for Infrastructure (Keys, Certs, API tokens) Backup for VMs / Disk Snapshots & Lifecycle Policies Autoscaling / Managed Instance Groups (MIG/VMSS) DNS Management for Infrastructure (Internal + External Zones) Options and prices come straight from our research sheets for a hobby infrastructure iaas project. Prices are estimates and change often — always confirm on the provider's page before committing. 