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Amazon has a great service, but when I experiment with things on AWS the cost always seems to end up at $30-$100 to run the experiment on AWS where when I use G

Amazon has a great service, but when I experiment with things on AWS the cost always seems to end up at $30-$100 to run the experiment on AWS where when I use Google they typically send me a bill for $1.48 or more recently I got a $0.24 bill. It always seems more expensive to even kick the tires on something with AWS versus GCP. Having said that the company I work for now was spending so much on AWS they had to do something to reverse the trend. We changed how we provision and deploy services on AWS and it has brought our costs down approximately $75,000 / mo. I don't know what we were paying before versus now though so I'm not sure how much we saved as a percentage.

arrty88 10y ago
Hi. Can I help you burn your money?
anonymoushn 10y ago
When I tried out the AWS free trial thing, they had some issue where EC2 instances would become totally unreachable within minutes of being created. Support asked me to leave some bugged instances running so they could investigate. Then I was billed for these instances. I asked for a refund, but Amazon says they have no record of the charges, even though I can see them in my Amazon account. Great.
pc86 10y ago
If you have an MSDN license through your employer, Azure offers $50-150/mo credits depending on license types for dev and test environments. I've never run into issues getting feedback on prototypes in test from real customers, nor have I ever broken through that credit on a single app. Occasionally I'd pass $150 if we were running 3-5 apps simultaneously all with some measurable load but often the "usage" was in the $5-50/mo range. Whether your employer will let you use their credits for personal use is another issue entirely (I've had several who didn't use them at all and several who let you use some).
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- Gaessaki 10y ago
  On a similar note, startups can take advantage of the Azure credits through Microsoft's BizSpark program[1], which is essentially a handful of free MSDN subscriptions. [1] http://bizspark.microsoft.com/default.aspx http://bizspark.microsoft.com/default.aspx
hinkley 10y ago
You could pay for the care and feeding of five developers for that kind of money (including taxes, infrastructure and support costs). Maybe something to consider in future build vs buy decisions.
- merb 10y ago
  Exccept that its really really hard to hire people. Especially in a overblown market were lots of companies want the good people.
- cm2012 10y ago
  Also, a company using $75k of Amazon services probably doesn't really care about $75k of expenses per month.

arrty88 10y ago

Hi. Can I help you burn your money?

anonymoushn 10y ago

When I tried out the AWS free trial thing, they had some issue where EC2 instances would become totally unreachable within minutes of being created. Support asked me to leave some bugged instances running so they could investigate. Then I was billed for these instances. I asked for a refund, but Amazon says they have no record of the charges, even though I can see them in my Amazon account. Great.

pc86 10y ago

If you have an MSDN license through your employer, Azure offers $50-150/mo credits depending on license types for dev and test environments. I've never run into issues getting feedback on prototypes in test from real customers, nor have I ever broken through that credit on a single app. Occasionally I'd pass $150 if we were running 3-5 apps simultaneously all with some measurable load but often the "usage" was in the $5-50/mo range. Whether your employer will let you use their credits for personal use is another issue entirely (I've had several who didn't use them at all and several who let you use some).

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Gaessaki 10y ago
On a similar note, startups can take advantage of the Azure credits through Microsoft's BizSpark program[1], which is essentially a handful of free MSDN subscriptions. [1] http://bizspark.microsoft.com/default.aspx http://bizspark.microsoft.com/default.aspx

hinkley 10y ago

You could pay for the care and feeding of five developers for that kind of money (including taxes, infrastructure and support costs). Maybe something to consider in future build vs buy decisions.

merb 10y ago
Exccept that its really really hard to hire people. Especially in a overblown market were lots of companies want the good people.
cm2012 10y ago
Also, a company using $75k of Amazon services probably doesn't really care about $75k of expenses per month.