$1.20 a month may be expensive relative to your costs, but relative to the average programmer income and monthly bills in the United States – it's nothing. You'll spend three times that cost on a local cup of coffee every morning.

S3 static hosting is far easier to manage than a virtual server; it's a trade-off of convenience vs savings.

It didn't include the domain no.

I've used digital ocean droplets for some things for a similar $5 a month price, but it hardly seems necessary for a static site. It's much less faffery to just upload some files to S3 and click some buttons in the AWS console to configure everything.

What service do you use? 5/mo is really cheap for 10+sites/apps

Not to discourage a response with a personal anecdote, but don't miss https://github.com/joedicastro/vps-comparison and its HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245538.

hetzner.de (the cheapest virtual server)

I'm really conscious about the resource usage of my server processes. Most sites are static websites, but I also have Gitea, Prosody and Matrix Synapse running on that box, plus some small Go webapps for my own consumption.