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Even with .Net ... on small to even medium-ish scale, you can deploy a couple Dokku nodes, deploy to all three, set them behind a load balancer and use the hosted PostgreSQL + replica. This can handle a lot of load with minimal startup cost and scale relatively easily on almost any mid-tier provider at a lot less cost.

You can still deploy with Github actions, still have redundancy on the front end and pay a couple hundred a month vs. many hundreds or thousands.

You can do all those things trivially with practically every major hosting provider.

I disagree. .NET actually literally is better supported on AWS. But, if what you say were true then that is a reason to never use .NET anymore.