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Well, I am playing in a different league. I have single digit budgets per volume per month. Of course they are smaller and have more modest performance requirem

Well, I am playing in a different league. I have single digit budgets per volume per month. Of course they are smaller and have more modest performance requirements. But still, exceeding my budget by 30% is not acceptable over longer time. And EBS (as well as all other Amazon stuff) makes it really easy to exceed it by 300%. For standard volumes you pay by IO operations (absolute calls). For the newer types you pay by provisioned IOPS (a max rate). That's a particular difficult decision to make if you move in that area. The less advanced competition has simpler pricing, but then you might be more unsure about what you get. Again for high requirements you know that if someone offers you 25 or even 50 GB for 1€ per month you know it's too good to be true. For modest requirements that's something you need to consider.

skywhopper 6y ago
Sounds like AWS may not be the right place for your workloads.
- usr1106 6y ago
  Often it is not. But smaller/cheaper competitors might have more downtime (hard to quantify in advance), problems to keep their kernels maintained, less predictable capacity and product lifetime. So it's not without risks going for cheaper options.
  - phonon 6y ago
    AWS Lightsail might be a better fit for you.
    - usr1106 6y ago
      Thanks for that tip, they don't seem to advertise that a lot! Launched 11/16 and somewhat reasonably priced since 08/18. Still more expensive than some others I also use, but at these prices it might be an easier decision if you want to avoid risks with the more aggressively priced competitors. Edit: Even with a terraform provider, nice!
      - phonon 6y ago
        They actually give you an incredible discount on bandwidth, if that's important...it's a a known AWS "hack" :-)
        usr1106 6y ago
        Data transfer hasn't been an issue for me in those low end work-type scenarios. However, as a person having connections to several countries I use to spin up an instance in a suitable country to work around geo-blocking of TV stations occasionally. That way you very quickly accumulate a couple of GB. Looks like for this use case this lightsail should be much cheaper, even if my bill is not a problem in absolute terms.

skywhopper 6y ago

Sounds like AWS may not be the right place for your workloads.

usr1106 6y ago
Often it is not. But smaller/cheaper competitors might have more downtime (hard to quantify in advance), problems to keep their kernels maintained, less predictable capacity and product lifetime. So it's not without risks going for cheaper options.
- phonon 6y ago
  AWS Lightsail might be a better fit for you.
  - usr1106 6y ago
    Thanks for that tip, they don't seem to advertise that a lot! Launched 11/16 and somewhat reasonably priced since 08/18. Still more expensive than some others I also use, but at these prices it might be an easier decision if you want to avoid risks with the more aggressively priced competitors. Edit: Even with a terraform provider, nice!
    - phonon 6y ago
      They actually give you an incredible discount on bandwidth, if that's important...it's a a known AWS "hack" :-)
      - usr1106 6y ago
        Data transfer hasn't been an issue for me in those low end work-type scenarios. However, as a person having connections to several countries I use to spin up an instance in a suitable country to work around geo-blocking of TV stations occasionally. That way you very quickly accumulate a couple of GB. Looks like for this use case this lightsail should be much cheaper, even if my bill is not a problem in absolute terms.