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.
Anything AWS does you can run on Linux computers.
It’s naive to think that AWS is some sort of magically special system that transcends other networked computers, out of brand loyalty.
That’s the AWS kool aid that makes otherwise clever people think there’s no way any organization can run their own computer systems - only AWS has the skills for that.
But you are absolutely right, I'm drinking the AWS kool aid like thousands of other otherwise clever people who don't know that AWS is just Linux computers!
