One alternative that's available right now is Fly.io — Fly actually runs Docker containers at the edge, so you get a lot of the benefits including autoscaling up and down, your application following the sun across the world, etc.
I'm using them for a couple of small production projects and wrote up a gRPC example, quite happy with the service so far.
I'm using them for a couple of small production projects and wrote up a gRPC example, quite happy with the service so far.