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I don't think "surprise bills" is a good reason to avoid AWS. Yes, you avoid them on other providers by doing simple bare-metal Linux boxes. But doing a bare-me
by ufmace 2y ago
I don't think "surprise bills" is a good reason to avoid AWS. Yes, you avoid them on other providers by doing simple bare-metal Linux boxes. But doing a bare-metal Linux box with no other services is also fixed-cost at AWS. You only get into tricky to determine in advance variable costs when you string together a bunch of AWS's extra services in ways that you don't understand well or don't/can't set limits on.
On the other hand, doing single bare-metal boxes being much more complex and usually more expensive is a good reason to skip AWS for simple projects. In addition to the profusion of instance types and billing/usage options.
I also think the lack of options on limiting max billing for flexible services is pretty reasonable actually. For most of them, there's no single obvious reasonable thing to do when the money hits the limit. Storage costs money too, but I don't think much of anyone really wants to have their data get deleted when the cost hits the limit, for example.
- endgame 2y agoAren't you still going to be on the hook for data transfer out?
- wontondisregard 2y agoDon't worry, there are plenty of other reasons to avoid AWS, too.
- x0x0 2y ago> I also think the lack of options on limiting max billing for flexible services is pretty reasonable actually. It's really scummy. There's no reason not to allow me to set, eg, a 5-10x normal spend hard limit where they shut things off. For things like lambdas with accidental reflection (stop lambdaing), someone using your bandwidth to serve files (stop serving), a bug in a your Athena scripts that downloads a far broader date range than expected (stop all athena), etc.
- avereveard 2y agoSimple is in the eye of the beholder I guess, and the article writer had issues migrating, check notes, a Python app. That said while cost limiting vps option like lightsail exists on aws, they are on the high end of cost. Sure you get a good chunk of cpu time compared to the 15$ a year vps from questionable providers, but it's hard to beat that on price, especially for single user experiments. I wouldn't store sensitive or pii data there, but most web sites aren't a ecommerce or a social either. And while I'm a huge aws fan, my minecraft and factorio servers and openwebui deployment are on some such cheap host at a discount provider. And never went down once. Or they did but I wasn't looking, which is the same tbh for single user stuff.
- 7bit 2y agoDon't know the AWS prices, but a bate metal box on Azure (or a VM) is exponentially more expensive than the same thing on literally any other provider. If you need only a VM to self-host, go anywhere else and you pay a fraction of Azure.