I am 100% not willing to put that much effort into it.

Actually I am not willing to spend that much time reading "cloud" provider docs and best practices.

What I care about is hosting services and getting the mission done. I value predictable and reasonable costs much more than "flexibility".

In general whatever host I have ever used typically have "cloud" offerings too. So real services go to dedicated hosts, experiments go into 5 buck a month vms.