Yeah paying in advance helps too I do 1 year for like $40-$50, single core 10GB 2GB ram
edit: the one for $30/mo on AWS is 2 Core, 4GB RAM, like 30GB space, what specs are you getting for that price? For me roughly that (though $ is not as strong) that's what I mentioned above through OVH.
I'm at Hetzner and I'm using it for some bandwidth-hungry stuff. Hetzner includes 2 TB egress traffic per month which alone would cost me about $60 on AWS. It's easy to forget about the data transfer when looking at AWS/GCP/Azure prices.
Wait is data transfer equivalent to bandwidth? I never even look at bandwidth. Sorry if that's obvious I have seen that "metric" before and didn't click till now.
For really low bandwidth stuff (<1GB month) it won't hit you with AWS. But as soon as you're over that, it gets real expensive real quick. E.g. 1TB on AWS (traffic out of AWS) costs you $90 most regions, I believe, while you often get at least that much included elsewhere.
For Hetzner as mentioned, once you exceed the included bandwidth (which for most VPSs and servers is 2-3TB at least per month), it costs less than 2 euro/month extra.
This isn't likely to affect you for a personal git repo, but mentioning it as it's one of the things that often burn people with AWS, as the AWS bandwidth rates are crazily high to the point where for high-bandwidth applications even if you want/need to use AWS it's sometimes cheaper to run your own CDN in front of it to reduce bandwidth charges.
My order of preference if I don't need AWS specific services tends to be Hetzner, OVH and Digital Ocean, depending on what additional geographical regions I need (Hetzner is only in Germany) or other service requirements.
AWS is great for specific use-cases as long as you keep a close eye on costs.
Thanks for the tip, I wasn't even considering bandwidth. I think when I first was setting up EC2 I got a "bad batch" if that's a thing, I should say instance. I couldn't figure out why the TTFB was varying from 3-5 seconds I tried so many things eventually I had to switch and since I didn't have elastic IP I think, I switched servers (regions) to whatever I was assigned on restart and it was instant/correct like in the 10s/100s ms range.
Anyway I'll keep an eye on that, don't have users yet but something to keep in mind, thankfully not really serving media mostly text.
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edit: the one for $30/mo on AWS is 2 Core, 4GB RAM, like 30GB space, what specs are you getting for that price? For me roughly that (though $ is not as strong) that's what I mentioned above through OVH.