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The AWS Free Tier currently offers 750 hours of EC2 (compute) and 30 GB of EBS (storage) for 12 months. This is generally sufficient for most tinkering projects - including this self-hosted blog. This post aims to build on the EC2 Get started tutorial with the goal of optimizing performance

This guide presents a self-hosted, AWS-based option to run a Ghost website. The objective is to minimize cost while providing the required resources to run the application and its dependencies. It leverages services including compute, storage, and DNS available within the AWS Free Tier and is suitable for enthusiasts evaluating