Thanks Jax,
Yes, it is, as I'm newer to much of this, and have found 1st and 2nd degree help from LLMs to get me a decent step of the way, but no replacement for proper domain expertise. (Though it does tend to help me better frame and ask better questions. It's also much better at drafting technical docs than me. But I know it's likely annoying at times to see AI generated content, especially overly generic content, of moderate to advanced topics.)
Apologies for not providing enough appended context to the message. I'd just gone on a marathon research and notes taking session.
What I was particularly curious about was whether anyone had attempted one or more of the alternatives to, as a more cost efficient means to building out the infrastructure and features with the other approaches listed (see image), and guidance on why for or not, for any of them, also as compared to the paid services by Pulumi.
We're a young and scrappy bootstrap team, and are seeking to explore and test, and learn, while being budget minded, and then going from there.