Whenever I’ve need a Linux box for some testing or experimentation, or projects like the One Billion Row Challenge a few months back, my go-to solution is Hetzner Online, a data center operator here in Europe. Their prices for VMs are unbeatable, starting with 3,92 €/month for two shared vCPUs (either x64 or AArch64), four GB of RAM, and 20 TB of network traffic (these are prices for their German data centers, they vary between regions). four dedicated cores with 16 GB, e.g. for running a...
