S3's the storage - you still have to run an httpd daemon somewhere, and even the smallest, cheapest EC2 instance will run you no less than $14 a month. (Notwithstanding the one-year-only free tier)

(Wow, I didn't know you could just serve content straight off the storage. I need to re-examine AWS.. thanks :D)

You can host static sites entirely on S3: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHostin...

Nice to know this. One major disadvantage is no https.

If you use Cloudfront you can: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Developer...

Stick it behind the free cloudflare tier and you'll get ssl now for free.

Looks like you can host a static web site just using S3: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHostin...

S3 lets you essentially park a domain on a bucket and serve files from the URL, including .html. No additional httpd needed.

EC2's new t2.micro instance is actually $9.50/month https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/07/01/introd...

Heroku? I'm unsure what could fit into one of these VPSes but not a free-tier Heroku instance. (Which you get as many of as you like, mind you.)

Yeah that is much more suited.. all the tiny php can be hosted on this without any SHELL/super user restrictions