Low Cost Profiles

Low-Cost Profiles

The AWS and GCP roots run Foundry and Cloudflare Tunnel on one VM. They omit managed databases, load balancers, NAT gateways and automatic backups. A protected, independent data disk survives paused=true; disk storage remains billed. Complete first boot and a backup before pausing, and verify the same disk ID after resuming.

Hetzner is another single-server option. Its power-off still bills the server. Its Terraform compute_enabled=false deletes the managed data volume and is never a safe pause. Azure's reduced standard profile still includes substantial managed-service costs.

Use the comparison and pricing assumptions to choose a profile, and follow low-cost operations for first boot, quiesced off-host backups, tested restore, reversible stop/start, resize, upgrades, scheduling and retirement. No automatic scheduler or paid backup service is provisioned. Keep one writer for state and the active world.

See Provider Guide, Quickstart, and validation evidence.