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That's exactly the reason I gave up on AWS, I need an accountant to do the math every month :D Now I rent a 4GB Linux box for 5$/m with no Dockers or whatsoeve

• Gravyness 6y ago
  I also hate this complexity with a passion. I love cloud, but pricing can be a real nightmare. I don't use AWS specifically but when I needed to know the price of some cloud service or group of services I spin up the service (or services) in a brand new project and let it run for 24 hours under similar working environment to see the impact, then after checking the results (the breakdown of each service's price in that day) I just close the project entirely, no left overs. So I tend to successfully avoid these strange, terribly organized, cloud-specific, service-specific calculator where I can easily forget one aspect of the service that might cost a lot of money absolutely randomly. Obviously it is a bad strategy if things are expected to reach $200/month and/or you do 'price evaluation' frequently, but otherwise it is stupid easy. I barely spent $50 each year doing this (small company and sporadic system changes) But the best part is that the final daily price of your system is as precise as it can possibly be and that is worth something.