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Depends on your threat model and actual realistic concerns.
Ultimately, if it comes down to it, there's very little you can do that's failsafe and 100% guaranteed: the provider has access to your disk, all data in your instances RAM (including encryption keys), and can watch your processes execute in real time and see even the specific instructions your vCPU is executing.
Don't put illegal shit on hardware you do not physically own and have physical control over, and encrypt everything else but like, if the value of your shit is high enough, you're fucked if you're using someone else's computer.
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