How can an average web developer use Amazon EC2 in everyday life?

Question

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Hello!
Amazon EC2 has announced a year of free use.
How can this be rationally used for ordinary ordinary web development?
Does it make sense to use this in the future on a paid basis instead of regular hosting (php and node.js small projects)?
Or is it all for something powerful and resource-intensive and there is no point in wasting time learning and using this service?
Thanks in advance for your kind answers!

Answer 1

the power of amazon lies in the ability to scale. That is, no magic, we can track loads using the API and add servers using the API when necessary. Automatically. Or there you are planning a New Year's promotion and the flow of users will be 10 times more - they added servers for a month. Also, AWS has a million services that will come down to start (for example, if you need to quickly upload a video transcode - no problem. Normally, you can already do it on EC2 when the cost is very expensive (or even take a node with a GPU).
But just like that - AWS is too dear, it’s easier to take an ocean of droplets to digital and not worry about it.They have more opportunities to scale.

Answer 2

There, by the way, you can get money, for example, if you take an elastic IP and DO NOT fasten it to the instance, then the money will be removed for not using it)) , so be careful))