3 ms·
The nominal price of $0 absolutely is absurd, since every individual service has a separate pricing chart down to the ELB.
by freeone3000 6y ago
The nominal price of $0 absolutely is absurd, since every individual service has a separate pricing chart down to the ELB.
- throwaway894345 6y agoI can't find a pricing chart for IAM, which is the cited example.
- freeone3000 6y agoIAM isn't a service. It's how you govern access control. Its nonsensical to charge for this, as an "IAM service instance" makes no sense.
- throwaway894345 6y agoYou don't seem to understand what a 'service' is. In particular, you seem to think a service is something that operates on resources called 'instances'. Here's the Wikipedia definition of a web service: > a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a network, serving web documents (HTML, JSON, XML, images), which serve in solving specific domain problems over the Web (WWW, Internet, HTTP) Clearly IAM is a service. Further, the service needn't operate on resources called "instances" in order to provide value--few AWS services offer "instance" resources and yet they deliver value to customers and are consequently priced. IAM isn't priced directly, but rather the operating cost for the service is built into other AWS services, presumably to encourage people towards security best-practices (charging for IAM might dissuade users from building securely).
- luhn 6y agoThere are many free AWS services. Off the top of my head: - IAM - VPC - ECS - Several SSM services - CodeDeploy