I deployed my backend on Render and almost immediately hit a wall. (opens in new tab)

I deployed my backend on Render and almost immediately hit a wall. The CNJ (Brazil's national justice council) has a public API I was using to pull data for BidTrack, a side project for tracking legal bids and the issue was that Render provisions servers in North America by default. The CNJ API blocks requests from outside Brazil. Every call returned 403. Then I had two options: add a Brazilian proxy (expensive) or host the API myself on AWS in sa-east-1 (São Paulo). I went with AWS, not just...