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So these are for people who want to do quick compatibility testing? For that use case, how does it not make more sense to go with MacStadium? If you end up needing to test for two days instead of one, you're already in the pricing territory where you could have gotten a full month of usage from MacStadium.

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> how does it not make more sense to go with MacStadium?

If you're already in AWS, your deployment infrastructure and tooling is already configured and tuned for AWS. Deploying a Mac EC2 instance is just adding another target. Whereas deploying to another provider is an unknown amount of work to integrate with their API (if they even have one). The wall-time cost of people's time and effort vastly outweighs the marginal savings you'd get by going with a low-cost provider.

I will spend more time trying (with no great chance of succcess) to obtain authorisation to establish an additional commercial relationship, and corporate billing/card approval, and the time burned on this instantly exceeds any amount of money they could possibly save me.

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