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Already exists in some way: https://techbase.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Akonadi Store your home directory remotely, have a remote MariaDB/PostgreSQL holding the index and it does exactly what you describe.

However, that is not the standard configuration of course.

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My dream would be some Linux distribution that lets me sign into AWS and creates the relevant cloud infrastructure for me as part of installation or setup after installation.

I would want it to be standard and recommended.

I’ve thought of taking this a step further and making an entire posix OS on top of an AWS account with a sort of web based terminal.

If you think about it an AWS account is the equivalent of a virtual machine running an OS. It has users/groups (IAM), storage, processes (lambda), a scheduler (EventBridge), containers (EC2). It would be a fun exercise to build an abstraction layer on top that emulated a posix OS.

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