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Even non-free tier burstable VM is super cheap. For example, a VM.Standard.E4.Flex (AMD x86) with 1 OCPU (2 vCPU) and 4GB RAM with burstable baseline 50% is just ~$13.05/month (($0.025*50% + 4*$0.0015)*730hr). With baseline 12.5% it is just ~$6.66/month.

In comparison, AWS t3a.medium (2vCPU, 4GB RAM, burstable baseline 20%) will cost ~$27.45/month ($0.0376*730hr). DigitalOcean's 2vCPU 4GB Droplet will cost $24/month.

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Hetzner deserves way more attention in the VPS space. They offer an equivalent configuration for just €5.32/month, and I'm not even rounding anything down.

And for about the same price that AWS offers for their weak boxes ("~$27.45/mo"), Hetzner will give you 8 vCPUs and 16 GB of RAM... Yes, the IPv4 cost is excluded, but it's only €0.61/month if you even want to have it.