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"for purely private use, I wouldn’t opt for AWS even if I had to choose now. I’ll leave it at that" I will elaborate: I started out with AWS several years ago

by worik 6y ago

"for purely private use, I wouldn’t opt for AWS even if I had to choose now. I’ll leave it at that" I will elaborate: I started out with AWS several years ago. I could never work out how they calculated my bill, and had more than one >$100 shocks for hosting my personal services. I moved to DO and Vultr (stayed with DO for no real reason) and so shut everything down on AWS. But I still got a $0.50 monthly charge on my credit card. I tried emailing - no response, totally ghosted. I went through the control panel several times - it is/was a huge mess, obscure by policy obviously - and finally in some far distant corner found something still turned on. I did not understand what it was at the time and can recall no details, but I turned it off with great relief. A week later I got a email from AWS (!) saying that I had made a error and they had helpfully turned the whatever it was back on... So I continued to donate $0.50 a month to Amazon until I cancelled the credit card for other reasons. (it would cost $10 for the bank to even think about blocking them) These days I will crawl over cut glass not to do business with that organised bunch of thieves called Amazon.

divbzero 6y ago
This inspired me to finally track down the $0.XX monthly donation I’ve been making to AWS. Through the billing dashboard [1] I discovered a zombie static site I set up ages ago with S3 and Route 53. [1]: https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home#/bills https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home#/bills (Edit: I found the S3 bucket, but mysteriously no hosted zone to account for the Route 53 bills ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
rnotaro 6y ago
I am in the same boat, I'm not personnally using AWS anymore but i'm still charged x.1x$ a month. It's not worth it enough to track the charge down and I might just delete my account without forgetting to change my email adress beforehand (since you can't reuse a deleted account email).
movedx 6y ago
> I went through the control panel several times - it is/was a huge mess, obscure by policy obviously - and finally in some far distant corner found something still turned on. I did not understand what it was at the time and can recall no details, but I turned it off with great relief. Using IAC (Terraform) would solve this in an instant: "terraform destroy". Done.
beardedetim 6y ago
Oh god I’m not the only one. I tried to host my own personal projects on AWS but could not for the life of me ever get the resources to be turned off.

by worik 6y ago

divbzero 6y ago

This inspired me to finally track down the $0.XX monthly donation I’ve been making to AWS. Through the billing dashboard [1] I discovered a zombie static site I set up ages ago with S3 and Route 53. [1]: https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home#/bills https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home#/bills (Edit: I found the S3 bucket, but mysteriously no hosted zone to account for the Route 53 bills ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

rnotaro 6y ago

I am in the same boat, I'm not personnally using AWS anymore but i'm still charged x.1x$ a month. It's not worth it enough to track the charge down and I might just delete my account without forgetting to change my email adress beforehand (since you can't reuse a deleted account email).

movedx 6y ago

> I went through the control panel several times - it is/was a huge mess, obscure by policy obviously - and finally in some far distant corner found something still turned on. I did not understand what it was at the time and can recall no details, but I turned it off with great relief. Using IAC (Terraform) would solve this in an instant: "terraform destroy". Done.

beardedetim 6y ago

Oh god I’m not the only one. I tried to host my own personal projects on AWS but could not for the life of me ever get the resources to be turned off.