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I really wish this were priced more along the lines of https://www.compose.com/pricing https://www.compose.com/pricing - a $200/m floor is a tough dB cost to ab

I really wish this were priced more along the lines of https://www.compose.com/pricing https://www.compose.com/pricing - a $200/m floor is a tough dB cost to absorb on smaller yet important projects. Suppose an app has a few mb of data and maybe one day hits 100mb of awesomeness I really have to pay $200/m here? I get it, I love Aws, just wish this was priced differently.

illumin8 8y ago
If you need a cheap/free document store for a small app, just use DynamoDB. It's free (forever, not just the first year) up to 25GB of storage and enough read/write capacity units to handle up to 200M requests per month: https://aws.amazon.com/free/?awsf.Free%20Tier%20Types=categories%23alwaysfree https://aws.amazon.com/free/?awsf.Free%20Tier%20Types=catego...
- privateSFacct 8y ago
  Exactly, this probably isn't targeting you. A few mb of data? Host an instance? Use sqlite? Atlas can run 3-5k/month as the minimum. This is going to be 10x cheaper (which amazon seems to try and shoot for).
Corrado 8y ago
Another thought along these same lines is how do you host non-production (Dev, QA, Demo, etc.) environments without spending a fortune? Sure my production workload is 15TB but my development system is only running 15GB and I want to develop against what I deploy to.
- GordonS 8y ago
  If you can create schemas, that could be one solution. I do this with Azure SQL Server instances, so a single instance can host all the 'non-critical' environments (dev, test, QA, demo) - works great!