They used to be very low cost, with many rough edges. I think the rough edges got fewer, they started offering a lot more managed/PaaS services, and de facto r

They used to be very low cost, with many rough edges. I think the rough edges got fewer, they started offering a lot more managed/PaaS services, and de facto raised prices (mostly by cutting a lot of the low-cost offerings and/or making them a lot less attractive, plus some actual price increases). I am still using them for hobby projects and didn't have issues with my running instances, but did occasionally run into issues when stopping/starting them (e.g. resource exhaustion, long delays, etc.). They really like obfuscating the actual price by showing everything in hours instead of months, so you're paying "zero point zero something" with no easy way to see what the actual cost per month is. It's possible to find the information but they really push the hourly price.