Bare metal from the likes of Hetzner for most things. Serverless for some small components which benefit from global distribution.
I currently have ~30 containers running on a Hetzner server w/ 64GB of RAM and 16 dedicated cores for ~$25/mo. I even get direct access to the Intel iGPU for graphics acceleration at no additional cost.
Cloud providers like AWS give you a couple orders of magnitude less resources for the same dollars. Too many engineers are getting fleeced into using crappy solutions (VPS's, almost anything by AWS/Azure/GCloud/Digital Ocean) because they're all they've ever known.
I currently have ~30 containers running on a Hetzner server w/ 64GB of RAM and 16 dedicated cores for ~$25/mo. I even get direct access to the Intel iGPU for graphics acceleration at no additional cost.
Cloud providers like AWS give you a couple orders of magnitude less resources for the same dollars. Too many engineers are getting fleeced into using crappy solutions (VPS's, almost anything by AWS/Azure/GCloud/Digital Ocean) because they're all they've ever known.