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Their setup is trivial - they could do it at 0.2% of revenue with a cheap vps on Linode or other...
by mattbillenstein 6y ago
Their setup is trivial - they could do it at 0.2% of revenue with a cheap vps on Linode or other...
- nordsieck 6y ago> Their setup is trivial - they could do it at 0.2% of revenue with a cheap vps on Linode or other... Lightsail has pretty comparable pricing to Linode. I'm sure they could re-architect their app to use fewer instances, but they could do that and stay on Lightsail as well. Moving to linode isn't going to give them a 90% savings.
- wolco 6y agoThe price seems on par. Are there hidden costs on aws?
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- dijit 6y agoI'm assuming that you might not be aware of AWS pricing. It's actually incredibly complicated and often very difficult (if not impossible) to predict. We have a dedicated part of our organisation which exists solely to figure out costs ahead of time for project. I'm not sure if it's intentionally obfuscated, I would suspect not, because "pay for what you use" can be broken down into many areas.
- scarface74 6y agoWhat is incredibly complicated about Lightsail? That’s kind of the point of it.
- radicalbyte 6y agoAzure is the same and Microsoft spent 20 years making their software licencing more and more unpredictable. It absolutely is a strategic choice and not an accident.
- znpy 6y agoIt's actually incredibly complicated and often very difficult (if not impossible) to predict. Not a joke: there are people that optimize aws bills for a living.
- Ozzie_osman 6y agoThere are startups that build specialized AI to optimize AWS bills for a living.
- dan15 6y agoThis is the main reason I don't use it. I like having predictable monthly pricing that remains consistent.
- mittalsuraj18 6y agoEgress charges. Lightsail and digital ocean give you 1TB egress minimum included in billing. Now try to input that number into EC2 instance. If I am not wrong, that turns out to be 130$ approx
- mattbillenstein 6y agoPretty interesting, I didn't realize the pricing was the same and you get bandwidth. This bandwidth pricing is very interesting because if you have apps that ship a lot of bytes, you can just run like haproxy on lightsail and get those bytes very very cheap instead of paying standard egress data pricing at like 9 cents per gig...
- PhantomGremlin 6y agoI just asked the same question https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23671787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23671787 before I saw your comment. Does this work? It seems like using lightsail is a way to drastically reduce egress data pricing??? It's like a free lunch, what's the catch?
- mattbillenstein 6y agoOnly thing I can think of is if they charge you egress out of a vpc to lightsail or something - would like to know if anyone has tried this.
- root993 6y agoHello, Author here. While this is true, we wanted to go with AWS for 2 primary reasons 1. We use some of the other services provided by AWS like s3 and Route53. 2. Just the reliability and brand that AWS has is something that we had to take into consideration
- harpratap 6y agoIs Lightsail also available for Graviton? Could you also compare your savings/losses if you switched to ARM instead? That would be an interesting comparison
- _msw_ 6y agoDisclosure: I work for AWS building cloud infrastructure. No, Lightsail doesn't use Graviton2 powered instances today.