

Not a lot but I was thinking that there is room for improvement! The main part of the cost is the EC2 compute cost (~17 US$) and I know that it's not used 100% of the time. It's built on a EC2 t2.small with a 8 GB disk so I have a monthly cost of about 18 US$. The first month operating the server, I noticed that my son is using it a couple of hours each day, and then the server was idle. In this case I will focus on the Minecraft Java Edition, because the server version is running well on Linux server, and my son is running a laptop on Debian.

Minecraft is a popular sandbox video-game.

I want to rely only on AWS services as I want to increase my knowledge on this big cloud offering. This article will explain you how to optimize the cost 😜, based on the usage! After checking some available services (yeah not so expensive finally), I have chosen to build a server on a EC2 instance. During the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, back in april 2020 my son ask me to build a Minecraft server in order to play on the same world with his school friend.
