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Honestly, if they really cared about devs, they would increase their enterprise support contract prices by 0.01% and have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever… 1

Honestly, if they really cared about devs, they would increase their enterprise support contract prices by 0.01% and have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever… 1 t4, 1 Aurora, 10GB bucket, and a dream…

mcny 1y ago
For students to learn effectively, they need a safe harbor. The most critical offering for learners on AWS is a free or prepaid account tier that completely eliminates the risk of surprise bills, allowing them to focus purely on their education. If the free forever portion includes a t4g.small, 1 aurora, a 10 GB S3 bucket, that would be perfect. I am not holding my breath though.
- galenko 1y ago
  Didn’t oracle cloud offer something like that free forever?
  - Volundr 1y ago
    Oracle clouds free offerings are very generous. But then your using Oracle.
    - pjmlp 1y ago
      Not an issue for many of us, other than possible issues with export restrictions, then again that applies to any US based technology now, if the administration keeps getting creative. They went after penguins after all.
- reactordev 1y ago
  That’s exactly what would make AWS sticky. A safe harbor for students to learn and build solutions using AWS without a surprise $400-$5000 bill. One experience like that, and you’ll be shopping on Newegg for a closet rack.
- whattheheckheck 1y ago
  If you rack up a big bill at work you don't get a refund , so the students need to learn finops the hard way too
lazystar 1y ago
> have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever… i could see a $10/month sub being a thing, but free forever... cmon, you know ppl would abuse the hell outta that.
- arccy 1y ago
  GCP manages to do it, AWS are just greedy and bad at DX
  - lazystar 1y ago
    is the GCP free tier in the room with us now? in all seriousness, would love a link.
    - IshKebab 1y ago
      Not many people know this, but Google also makes a search engine! https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#compute https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#compu...
      - lazystar 1y ago
        is the word "forever" in the fine-print somewhere?
        IshKebab 1y ago
        > The Free Tier has no end date, but Google reserves the right to change the offering, including changing or eliminating usage limits, subject to 30 days advance notice. It's been available for as long as I can remember GCP existing. Obviously no company will or even could guarantee something like this will be provided forever.
      - mnahkies 1y ago
        Really wish that GCP had a AWS lightsail equivalent offering. I'd happily make use of services like GCS and PubSub for my personal projects if they did, but I can't justify the GCE cost

mcny 1y ago

For students to learn effectively, they need a safe harbor. The most critical offering for learners on AWS is a free or prepaid account tier that completely eliminates the risk of surprise bills, allowing them to focus purely on their education. If the free forever portion includes a t4g.small, 1 aurora, a 10 GB S3 bucket, that would be perfect. I am not holding my breath though.

galenko 1y ago
Didn’t oracle cloud offer something like that free forever?
- Volundr 1y ago
  Oracle clouds free offerings are very generous. But then your using Oracle.
  - pjmlp 1y ago
    Not an issue for many of us, other than possible issues with export restrictions, then again that applies to any US based technology now, if the administration keeps getting creative. They went after penguins after all.
reactordev 1y ago
That’s exactly what would make AWS sticky. A safe harbor for students to learn and build solutions using AWS without a surprise $400-$5000 bill. One experience like that, and you’ll be shopping on Newegg for a closet rack.
whattheheckheck 1y ago
If you rack up a big bill at work you don't get a refund , so the students need to learn finops the hard way too

lazystar 1y ago

> have a “solo-dev tier” be free forever… i could see a $10/month sub being a thing, but free forever... cmon, you know ppl would abuse the hell outta that.

arccy 1y ago
GCP manages to do it, AWS are just greedy and bad at DX
- lazystar 1y ago
  is the GCP free tier in the room with us now? in all seriousness, would love a link.
  - IshKebab 1y ago
    Not many people know this, but Google also makes a search engine! https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#compute https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#compu...
    - lazystar 1y ago
      is the word "forever" in the fine-print somewhere?
      - IshKebab 1y ago
        > The Free Tier has no end date, but Google reserves the right to change the offering, including changing or eliminating usage limits, subject to 30 days advance notice. It's been available for as long as I can remember GCP existing. Obviously no company will or even could guarantee something like this will be provided forever.
    - mnahkies 1y ago
      Really wish that GCP had a AWS lightsail equivalent offering. I'd happily make use of services like GCS and PubSub for my personal projects if they did, but I can't justify the GCE cost