Hosting

A Python application must be deployed and hosted on one or more servers, or a platform-as-a-service, to run.

An engineer’s guide to cloud capacity planning is a wonderful article that discusses on-demand provisioning, horizontal and vertical scaling and how to estimate performance of your infrastructure.
Selecting a cloud provider reviews Etsy's decisionmaking around self-hosted infrastructure versus cloud hosting. They put together an architectural model and ultimately decided to start migrating over to Google Cloud Platform.
Going Multi-Cloud with AWS and GCP: Lessons Learned at Scale covers the compute, networking, persistent storage, billing and failover aspects of using more than one infrastructure provider.
Auth0 Architecture: Running In Multiple Cloud Providers And Regions explains their multi-cloud architecture and how it has evolved over the past several years.
Choose A Cloud has a few posts with charts for easy cross-cloud comparisons pricing on features such as persistent storage.
How Netlify migrated to a fully multi-cloud infrastructure is another story post about developing a multi-cloud architecture and the considerations for disaster recovery, databases and testing.

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