Thanks Alex and Arnie for the follow-ups. I will ask for a t4g.medium (2 cores, 4GB RAM) but let the powers that be know there's a chance I'll need to move up. Moving up does look easy on AWS - I'd just have to update my stable URL to point to the new IP address.
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