Looked at Packet and Exoscale just now, they seem to be infrastructure as a service rather than an app deployment platform like Heroku. Therefore it would burn up time on DevOps, taking away the focus from developing apps in Clojure. It took me 10 minutes to create a 2-stage deployment pipeline in Heroku, driven by CircleCI. I haven't seen how to do that with any other provider yet. I will have a look at DevOps in Clojure, but it's a long way down on the Todo list (unless someone wants to sponsor that specific content)
Good point, Heroku is still the simplest
On AWS my guess is the Beanstalk is gonna be the simplest option
It’s better than a guess - I have used it and it works