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Is there a speedrun to running an EC2 (AWS) or Compute Engine (GCP) instance? 

Start: fresh shell, no account on either, a simple CLI script ready to run.
End: opening a shell in a VM, running the said script

Rules: as few clicks as possible, ideally IaC

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You can't have an EC2/Compute instance w/o an AWS/GCP account. It's possible to create an account within an existing org with Terraform, though. I'd say drop the account requirement and a shell script that builds and then ssh into an instance would be easy to do.

I’ve yet to see anything that moves that quick. Fly.io is the quickest CLI-to-VM machine I’ve seen that does require an account, but the sign-up is super quick. Pulumi is good too, but also needs an account.