> We would happily pay someone like depot for "here's the AMI I want to run & autoscale, can you please do it faster than AWS?"
Change that to "here's the ISO/IMG I want to run & autoscale, can you please do it faster than AWS?" and you'll have tons of options. Most platforms using Firecracker would most likely be faster, maybe try to use that as a search vector.
Can you maybe share some examples? We're fine to use other image formats, but a lot of the value of AWS is that the services interact, IAM works nicely together, etc.
Fly.io comes up often [0] on HN, but there's an overwhelming amount of "it's a nice idea, but it just doesn't work" feedback on it.
Change that to "here's the ISO/IMG I want to run & autoscale, can you please do it faster than AWS?" and you'll have tons of options. Most platforms using Firecracker would most likely be faster, maybe try to use that as a search vector.