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I have to imagine CloudWatch makes AWS a lot of money too. Very often, when I look into an account from work that is spending a lot, CloudWatch is a large contr
by cebert 3y ago
I have to imagine CloudWatch makes AWS a lot of money too. Very often, when I look into an account from work that is spending a lot, CloudWatch is a large contributor.
- andrewstuart 3y agoAll the other parts of AWS are there really only to keep companies using S3.
- sofixa 3y agoReally? From Custom metrics, or logs? It's pretty rare that I hear anyone use it in production, there's usually either a SaaS like Datadog/New Relic or a homegrown setup with e.g. Prometheus.
- r3trohack3r 3y agoI had been running https://dockeri.co https://dockeri.co with https://arc.codes/ https://arc.codes/ for pennies a month. Then, one month, I got a ~$500 bill out of no where. Docker had changed an api causing my service to return 5xx errors all month. Each error was individually logged to CloudWatch - which racked up a ~$500 bill. I moved to Cloudflare Workers that day and haven’t moved back.
- NicoJuicy 3y agoLol. The Cloud really loves logging ( bills :p ). It would be nice if Cloudflare implemented "Open telemetry". It could reduce the cloud bill by at least 2. Logging is really expensive.
- gen220 3y agoC suite types prefer to have a single portal for “all the things” and naïvely assume the price premium they’re paying for AWS is evenly distributed across all their products. It’s also a common assumption AWS is the best in each category. A good number of people end up using cloud watch for all of the above, even though it’s (comparatively) mid.