We use both Azure and AWS at work. Azure is less expensive. But it’s also like comparing a corner 7-11 to a city-sized shopping mall. AWS is freaking huge and they add new services every week it seems. It’s kind of overwhelming.

There’s also Google Cloud and IBM and Oracle but they all suck for the same reasons AWS and Azure suck.

You might want to look into Alibaba Cloud, Digital Ocean, and/or Linode/Akamai.

We use digital ocean for a pre-production k8s environment, as well as other stuff, no complaints. Terraform works great with it. My only issue is that the worker nodes IPs change during/after an update, so we have to update our firewalls a few times, while the update is running, and after it’s over.