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Pricing of AWS services makes me uneasy in general, just take the S3 as an example - you go to the pricing page and you have several tabs with dozens of entries
by pkorzeniewski 5y ago
Pricing of AWS services makes me uneasy in general, just take the S3 as an example - you go to the pricing page and you have several tabs with dozens of entries which makes calculating how much exactly will you pay difficult. I might be simple minded but I prefer a clearly defined plans with predetermined limits - you know exactly what it costs you each month and what you get and if you need more, just switch to a higher plan, no risk of nasty (and often expensive) surprises like mentioned in the article.
- namelessoracle 5y agoIts ALMOST like one of the most lucrative businesses in the world is optimizing extracting money from you rather than customer experience.
- mwarkentin 5y agoYou could try their Lightsail object storage (and other lightsail services) for this type of pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/
- tpetry 5y agoI didn‘t know they extended lightsail to more than VMs. In S3 every request costs money, but in lightsail object storage they are free and you pay bandwidth?
- dec0dedab0de 5y agoThis is why I've never used it. It always felt like I was getting 10 records for a penny.
- citizenpaul 5y agoProblem is that customer pricing demands are infinitely granular, with i only want to pay for X that i use. The alternative is the tiers which have their own problems. Small Medium Big Call us No one know if they are gonna have success in the beginning or need to scale up. Usually. I guess at a size like AWS it makes more sense to have those infinite pricing tiers and let the customers figure out how much they are willing to pay rather than try to negotiate with huge swaths of people that take sales staff salary to deal with.