You can export the chaindata at any time and run geth on another OS, AWS is just a convenience because it's easy to spin up and easy to devops. It costs $300/month to run, I'm using it in production and it works great so far. I'm still glad to take your $1,000 if you'd like a full tutorial.
Not gonna make it... also if you looked into the costs it would lose you money if you took me up on that bet.
I have a better idea: Stacks sats and stay humble.