It's basically what Digital Ocean's droplets cost: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/

$5/mo for 0.5G, $10/mo for 1G, $20/mo for 2G. All the standard droplets, except for the 3G for $15/mo one, make you pay $10 more per gigabyte.

Both Vultr and Linode seem to offer twice the amount of RAM per dollar though.

Digital Ocean do a really good value base VPS, but once you're spending $20/mo with them, there's much better options with more traditional VPS providers. They're priced to compete with an EC2 box, while not providing the value-add to go with it, IMO.

I have yet to find a better $/RAM value than Contabo. 7€/month for a dual core 6GB RAM VPS. And the value only gets better the higher you go: https://contabo.com/?show=vps

They just added a $15/mo 6G plan, though, which is mighty nice.

No, it's just 3G for $15/month, so that one particular plan takes $5 per gigabyte like Vultr and Linode.

That isn't to say it isn't a nice deal though.

Yes because buying a stick of memory from Best Buy is ALMOST the same thing as hosting a sever in a cloud data center with an slice of an entire computer, redundant power, redundant network, and administration baked in. It is soo insane that every time we have a post, and someone compares hosting a computer in their garage with AWS. This may be a new record though, comparing hosting with buying a stick of memory at best buy.

Yes, because when I'm hosting a server to play Minecraft with a few friends I need redundant power, network, and administration. It's not as if I could just go to Best Buy, buy another stick of RAM, shove it into my decently spec'd desktop, port forward to a self hosted server, and get 99% of my necessary performance for a tenth of the cost (over a year of operation). Plus I don't have to return the RAM to Best Buy after I'm done with it.

Because casually hosting a Minecraft server is ALMOST the same thing as hosting a SaaS which needs 5 nines of reliability.

Its not exactly a controversial statement that AWS carries a massive premium on stuff like RAM.

Great, and a airplane flight from Chicago to New York City caries a premium on the price of a gallon of gas. Please tell me how this means it is a reason to complain about the price of airline tickets?

Your analogies do nothing but confuse the issue, AWS is vastly more expensive that comparable connectivity and reundancy with colocated, dedicated or even virtualized instances in comparison to other providers, at all but the smallest scale, especially in terms of ram.

You are comparing apples to oranges. Look at the list of services you can spin up with 1 click at AWS. Now go to your little rent-a-server provider with a $49 a month server. Tell me how you add RDS / multi region LB / S3 / IoT / blah blah blah with 1 click to your $49 rent a server?

I don't even think you can get 16 GB of DDR4 for $160.

That's not unusual for small VMs, but at the point where you need a serious amount of RAM it's drastically cheaper to rent dedicated hardware.

You can get 32 or 64GB dedicated servers for around $80-110USD per month, so that is technically more economical, but that's a lot if you need to commit to that just to get a good deal per GB of memory.