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Most things on AWS cost money and AWS makes pricing incredibly complex and opaque...where the monthly bill is usually the first way people find out about these
by StratusBen 5y ago
Most things on AWS cost money and AWS makes pricing incredibly complex and opaque...where the monthly bill is usually the first way people find out about these things. While it is likely no consolation, S3 is by far one of the most complex AWS products pricing-wise with different object storage types each with their own rates, request costs with different rates for GET/PUT/POST/etc which this post mentions, and transit/egress fees.
I work on https://www.vantage.sh/ https://www.vantage.sh/ which helps teams get visibility on their cloud costs which may be helpful to folks here as well on this topic.
- nostrebored 5y agoI've literally never had a problem explaining S3 costs to a customer. There are complex AWS products for pricing, but this just feels like a plug