https://www.ionos.com/servers/cloud-vps
$22/month for 18 months with a 3-year term 12 vCores CPU 24 GB RAM 720 GB NVMe
Unlimited 1Gbps traffic
And even EC2 is not just a VPS
If you need a simple VPS, yes, by all means, don't use AWS.
For this usecase AWS is definitely not cheaper nor simpler. Nobody said that. Ever.
