I've used AWS at a former job and I use DO for my own site. $5 a month is pretty affordable for a small site, and its simple.<p>Frankly its probably worth the money instead of wading through all the options amazon has to pull together something small for myself. Amazon has a lot of options and while for large businesses thats great, and they try to keep it simple, it honestly isn't.<p>Plus DO has really excellent documentation on how to do things like set up X.