I can see that you're a user of AWS. Check some prices on dedicated servers one day. They're an order of magnitude cheaper than similar AWS instances, and more powerful because all compute and storage resources are local and unshared.

They do have a higher price floor, though. There are no $5/month dedicated servers anywhere - the cheapest is more like $40. There are $5/month virtual servers outside of AWS which are cheaper and more powerful than $5/month AWS instances.

A Windows Server VM on a self-hosted Hyper-V box, which has a whole bunch of 8TB NVMe drives; this VM has a 4TB virtual volume on one of those (plus a much smaller OS volume on another).