If you have a small hobby project you could use AWS Lightsail[0] which has starting prices of $3.50/mo
I find it quite easy to mix services from multiple providers. For example add SQS or S3 from Amazon and Elasticsearch from elastic.co if your cloud doesn't have the products. The latency kills mostly just the connection from a web app to its database.
The biggest drawback is multiple invoices, but I think it's manageable.