If you want privacy and security and you don't trust your provider, then you have to build your own hardware and compile everything you run on it from vetted source, including your kernel. You can do it, but most people decide that on balance its better to trust someone.
Does it really? It just seems like instead of trusting a big company that everyone knows, you trust a smaller company that not everyone knows that involves more work for you.
I'm pretty sure I've seen articles on HN where VPS companies (maybe DO?) have kicked people off their infrastructure with zero notice. So, not at all different from being locked out of Apple/Google/Amazon.
Yes. VPS is a standardized commodity. If one provider shuts you down you can just move to another.
https://techjury.net/best/vps-hosting/
As you can see, AWS is far from the only game in town. If you can't find two or three from that list that will meet your needs then perhaps you should reassess your quality metric.
(I note in passing that my preferred provider, Linode, is not even on that list.)
NOT EVERYONE HAS THE SAME NEEDS AS YOU.
DIFFERENT CLOUD PROVIDERS OFFER DIFFERENT SERVICES
YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE MARKET OFFERS
/rant
Yes. but VPS is a standardized commodity. If one provider shuts you down you can just switch to another.