Got Unable to commit 16777216 bytes of memory error on Ubuntu

When running stack build on Ubuntu 18.04 on an AWS t2-micro instance (1 GB RAM), I got the following error:

Preparing to install GHC to an isolated location.
This will not interfere with any system-level installation.
Downloaded ghc-8.0.2.                                      
Installed GHC.                                                                  
Populated index cache.    
stack: internal error: Unable to commit 16777216 bytes of memory
    (GHC version 8.2.2 for x86_64_unknown_linux)
    Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug

1. .. After which there's no more output and stack build seems to hang. Any guidance here would be appreciated, thanks!

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Trac field	Value
Version	8.2.2
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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