My cloud costs for my micro instance are about $12 a month. Multiple domains on there. I don't use RDS, ElasticCache, not even load balancers. If you want to ke

My cloud costs for my micro instance are about $12 a month. Multiple domains on there. I don't use RDS, ElasticCache, not even load balancers. If you want to keep the costs reasonable, you must roll that stuff on your own, which is totally possible (and free), and in fact kind of fun as a learning experience.