since the airbyte hosted solution (Cloud pricing tier) is still in progress, would someone be able to give an idea of the most common cloud people are using to deploy production airbyte?

@Jarrod Parkes I'm currently deploying my Airbyte on EC2 You can check out the doc for any option that suit you.

just didnt know if there was data out there about the most common one

I'm not sure there is at the moment @Jarrod Parkes I think that decision will be based on your source data that you want to ingest

all the data we’d be consuming will be coming via web apis and some custom connectors im working on

Airbyte runs on top of docker containers, if you're going to have 500 connections you need to have a large instance because you'll have multiple docker containers running in parallel. But it's not easy to give you a correct instance size without knowing how much connectors you're going to use.