Ask HN: What's the least expensive VM you can buy in the cloud?

A t2.micro will run you about $10/month (you have to have some amount of EBS to go with it).

By comparison, an f1-micro on Google Compute Engine (GCE) is just under $5/month thanks to lower prices and "sustained use" discounting: https://cloud.google.com/compute/#pricing

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine.

I signed up to http://nanovz.com/ out of curiosity and, well, it works. It's €1.50 per year and you get 20 mapped inbound ports on an IPv4. I definitely wouldn't trust it far for the price but I've almost had my full year out of it so far :-D I learnt about it via http://lowendbox.com/ which is a blog that focuses on ultra low cost hosting and VMs.

Not a VM but a real dedicated server: €3 month with an IP address, €2 without for those microservices of yours. (I'm not related to then other than been a happy client) - https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/

http://www.ovh.co.uk/vps/vps-ssd.xml

I think this is the cheapest I've ever seen.

https://www.digitalocean.com ?