
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.

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.
