Is this trolling? Who gives a shit? It's 3 lines that will be buried deep in the stack. You can even do it manually Gasp. and write the steps with screenshots in a word document or an email.

"lso first example runs locally on any computer with docker or podman or whatever installed, second example exclusively runs on AWS."

So we have a multiple GB full vendor neutral system that runs on any provider with support for a Free Operating system, or even your own machine. And you are getting hang up because the process for deploying that vendor neutral system is itself not vendor neutral?

This is what I was writing about getting hung up on the 1% last mile. It's going to draw so much effort to convert that last mile into a fully compliant vendor neutral solution, for almost no benefit, I just proved that you can port it in 3 seconds, if we migrate to GCP I just change the first line and you are done.

Furthermore as soon as you want to make this solution 100% compliant with whatever metric (in this case vendor neutrality), you introduce more dependencies with more stuff to make vendor neutral. In a sense you are now locked in to Docker, shouldn't we make an abstraction layer so that we can run this thing with Docker or Podman indistinguishably?

Get your focus back on the actual product you are building instead of how nice 3 lines look.