Hobby customers aren't using AWS, by and large. And it's only a matter of time before we see more and more costs for IPv4 down in these tiers as well.

Totally disagree! :)

My monthly costs are minuscule with a reserved with a t4g instance, Lambda, S3 and Cloudfront as my primary usage.

Honestly, it beats out the “budget” VPS providers I was previously using, and is a heck of a lot more powerful/reliable.

I knew I’d get the counter points here on HN, but I’d argue we’re probably the exception here. AWS can be really cheap, but it is easy for things to go wrong. Bandwidth, commonly unmetered at places like OVH or Hetzner, can cost a fortune at AWS if you get attacked. And while AWS will refund you once or twice, after that you’re either left scared or on the hook eventually.

Absolutely! It just happens to be a good fit for me :)

I use very little bandwidth and processing with the vast majority of my projects. In the even that I do need heavy lifting for a couple hours, it still tends to be a pretty minimal cost.

Now for sustained heavy loads/bandwidth… I definitely would look elsewhere for hobby projects.

Edit: and I agree with your point about attacks. I have pretty aggressive monitoring set up around billing.

> Hobby customers aren't using AWS

AWS has the easy to use Lightsail[1] VPS offer with cheapest product at $3.5/mo but they'll likely increase these prices as well, since there's an IPv4 address included.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/

I've got a 2GB ram 2 CPU for the same price on IONOS

Counterpoint: My hobby projects all use AWS because that's what I am familiar with, and they have the cheapest prices. I also reuse a lot of resources like a database to further save costs.

AWS have many things, but they most definitely do not have the cheapest prices. Unless you are pricing in convenience.

AWS and the cheapest prices? Ehm sorry, but you will have a hard time finding something that's even more expensive than AWS