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If you have time, please elaborate on what you'd like to see.

mythz 9y ago
A "no-touch" effort-free pricing model similar to GCP's sustained usage where the hourly rate automatically drops based on continuous usage for each month. Reserved pricing is an unnecessary waste of time/effort turning us into manual book keepers where we have to try carefully match our reserved pricing plan to each service we use. It's time consuming and frustrating when you purchase the wrong reserved pricing SKU or are not notified when you have instances not covered by a reserved pricing so you end up paying the highest rate despite it running 24/7. It's frustrating enough that I've started moving servers that don't require access to other AWS services to hetzner.
- endymi0n 9y ago
  ...and EC2 reservations are still a Godsend compared to some other offerings out there, I mean at least they're interchangeable by node class: We've got Redshift reserved instances and due to growth, we need to upgrade our node type soon (even in the same class!!). But because you can't reuse, recycle or sell the reservations between node types, we have to let all of our small node reservations expire before, complicated by the fact they were already bought in several layers. There's no reserved instances market for Redshift (all of this looks like not very well thought out from the beginning) and it took us hours to finally come up with a semi good plan to do this (which will still cost thousands of dollars in lost expired instances). All of this was completely unproductive time in regards to our product, so the antithesis of what AWS stands for. Managing financial matters on AWS is such a royal PITA, I'm so glad we switched 90% of our stack to Google. They even give you a big fat yellow warning sign directly in the console: "Want so SAVE money? One click here and we'll resize your instance online instantly." Leave it on for a month and get nice discounts automatically. It's heaven. (Yes, BigQuery. I'd LOVE to, however there's a lot of very good reasons we're still on Redshift...)
microcolonel 9y ago
An exact copy of Google's compute billing system would be a step in the right direction. It is predictable, straightforward, and customer centric. Frankly what you would expect if Amazon retail designed it. Update: I realize that their ability to offer this pricing schedule also has to do with their specific technical infrastructure and migration capabilities; but it's clearly not impossible to make these features a reality since it's been done already.
- mythz 9y ago
  IMO it can be as simple as choosing a different pricing tier based on the number of instance hours billed.

A "no-touch" effort-free pricing model similar to GCP's sustained usage where the hourly rate automatically drops based on continuous usage for each month. Reserved pricing is an unnecessary waste of time/effort turning us into manual book keepers where we have to try carefully match our reserved pricing plan to each service we use. It's time consuming and frustrating when you purchase the wrong reserved pricing SKU or are not notified when you have instances not covered by a reserved pricing so you end up paying the highest rate despite it running 24/7. It's frustrating enough that I've started moving servers that don't require access to other AWS services to hetzner.

endymi0n 9y ago
...and EC2 reservations are still a Godsend compared to some other offerings out there, I mean at least they're interchangeable by node class: We've got Redshift reserved instances and due to growth, we need to upgrade our node type soon (even in the same class!!). But because you can't reuse, recycle or sell the reservations between node types, we have to let all of our small node reservations expire before, complicated by the fact they were already bought in several layers. There's no reserved instances market for Redshift (all of this looks like not very well thought out from the beginning) and it took us hours to finally come up with a semi good plan to do this (which will still cost thousands of dollars in lost expired instances). All of this was completely unproductive time in regards to our product, so the antithesis of what AWS stands for. Managing financial matters on AWS is such a royal PITA, I'm so glad we switched 90% of our stack to Google. They even give you a big fat yellow warning sign directly in the console: "Want so SAVE money? One click here and we'll resize your instance online instantly." Leave it on for a month and get nice discounts automatically. It's heaven. (Yes, BigQuery. I'd LOVE to, however there's a lot of very good reasons we're still on Redshift...)

microcolonel 9y ago

An exact copy of Google's compute billing system would be a step in the right direction. It is predictable, straightforward, and customer centric. Frankly what you would expect if Amazon retail designed it. Update: I realize that their ability to offer this pricing schedule also has to do with their specific technical infrastructure and migration capabilities; but it's clearly not impossible to make these features a reality since it's been done already.

mythz 9y ago
IMO it can be as simple as choosing a different pricing tier based on the number of instance hours billed.