I understand why they've done it, but I now consider this DOA. Open source without self hosting capability is just crowdsourcing your engineering team. Documented and supported or bust. The cloud is a prison.
I was going to be looking hard at GitPod in 2023. That is now entirely off the table.
If the answer is "nothing" then you don't really need it so it was never on the table.
I cannot/will not consider a solution that results in you directly managing or hosting my code/projects. I know many companies that would also take issue because of this.
Also I understand you're pivoting your customer base to enterprises and not the random hobbyist - but obviously I cannot afford enterprise pricing.
That's why many of us are sad to see this no longer be an option for us.
If you did run it in "our" cloud account you would still be on the hook for very expensive audits and background checks for everyone involved.
It not even close to worth it :/
Not supporting self-hosting is a cost-based decision, saying "well I'll figure it out and do it anyway" is just encouraging companies with open source offerings to act like this. Open source is only have the equation to make something self-hostable in any practical sense, the other half being accessibility.