HA Remotely with Z2M

[ACJUK]

Hi

I'm playing with an idea. I have a mini PC running HA and Z2M at home and everything is working beautifully. BUT... I just fancy trying something different.

So, I installed HA on an EC2 instance - no idea what I'm doing but it works. I then pointed my Z2M in HA to the EC2 instance. Again, no idea what I'm doing but it connected and all my devices/entities appeared on my EC2 instance of HA.

I'd like to take this a step further. I've ordered one of these:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004740321069.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.14cebfa6Jr8zwR&algo_pvid=a4fe9185-cad6-4c62-b792-efc606deff28&algo_exp_id=a4fe9185-cad6-4c62-b792-efc606deff28-13&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000030300854229%22%7D&pdp_npi=2%40dis%21GBP%2138.94%2126.48%21%21%21%21%21%402100bdd816630565191871252ecd49%2112000030300854229%21sea&curPageLogUid=7XWxAm73BiN8

My deluded(?) hope is that I could remove my HA box at home completely if I wanted to and just use my EC2 and that box from Aliexpress.

That got me thinking. If I wanted to build something like that - a cheap little box that ran Z2M with a 2652 or something with a UI for adding devices etc, what would I need? Is it some very clever piece of kit with Z2M embedded somehow? Or is it as simple as buying some readily available board, attaching a 2652 and flashing it with Z2M?

I know this might be a very niaive dream but I would like to explore it. I'm just thinking of alternatives for simple people like me who might want HA but can't get hold of a Pi and don't want a PC sat in the corner running HA. Yes, I know it loses the benefit of local control. Just humour me :)

EDIT: No. it looks like that's just a coordinator that you can access over ethernet rather than having to plug it into the USB port. Still interested in whether there is anything else that Z2M could be run on rather than a Pi or a PC/old laptop/whatever