Is there a timeline on this? I personally think this should be put into motion soon.
My 2 cents on the cloud centralization / AWS issue, I don’t think anyone should worry about it. People worry about AWS being hacked but there are way bigger fish in AWS / other clouds that it is really of little concern to ICON.
As far as the minimum wage is concerned, I think running a basic node on AWS should dictate what the minimum wage is. The instance Fidel mentioned (t3a.xlarge) is sufficient with the associated drive space putting minimum node costs at $320/month. I think maybe +25% of that ($400) should be good IMO.