Color me curious. Where is that? And by what definition of near? There isn't even an AWS AZ near you? A t2.micro is literally free and is bigger than the one I'm running mine on (which I'm paying for, so maybe I should swap... though, I don't think AWS has AZs closer than my current $1/mo host).
The t2.micro is only free for a year, no? After that it's expensive vs normal providers, like aws stuff generally.