What exactly should I ask for if I want to follow your footsteps and run a full node on Amazon's smallest, weakest instance type? Is it a Linux instance type because they are usually the cheapest?
What exactly should I ask for if I want to follow your footsteps, but if I want a Windows instance type?
It's pretty straightforward. Just fire up a t2.micro with enough disk space, create a security group that allows port 22 and 8333 and run the node software.
It's fairly similar between windows and linux but I'd recommend linux because it's cheaper and because you don't really need all the things windows does. I'm thinking I may make a video on how to do it.