mikeyla85

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by mikeyla85 6y ago
Amazon was the only service that had storage that I could afford ($40/mo versus hundreds per month the competitors were asking.) Backblaze, last I checked, has "unlimited" storage but requires you to plug the hard drive in ev
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what would market rate for a sysadmin run to order a snowball and sync 24TB of data to it, ensuring that it ends up properly in Deep Glacier?
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
Thanks, and I received your email! I'll definitely consider switching and getting other filmmakers on the platform.
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
I checked many of the files. The change took for everything I could see, but the billing was still affected.
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
It was 6 months. Three of them was really my bad. The other three...well, some shit was going down.
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
Yep, which is what makes "creates a copy" in this warning seem like "copy and delete". Because just creating a copy and not deleting the original is nothing at all like editing storage class.
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
I was an evangelist for the company. I posted regularly about how good of a solution S3 was for filmmakers and was offering to help friends back up their 10-20 terabytes to the cloud. Not anymore.
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
Damn, that's insane. Would it be so hard for them to redesign AWS to tell you what something's going to cost before you do it?
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
Not really in S3... It seems that some "move" operations are "copy" operations, which is the context in which I understood this warning: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=455101#j...
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
OP here. Thanks to some of the helpful comments, it seems that the creation of a copy when I chose "Edit storage class" may have been the culprit. I didn't suspect that because in all my correspondence with Amazon, they alway
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
According to support, the issue was incomplete multipart uploads, not the creation of a copy, though. So I don't think that warning relates to the overcharge.
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
Ah that's interesting. In my support conversations with Amazon they never brought up copies of objects as a reason billing could be high, so I didn't look into it. They told me the issue was incomplete multipart uploads, so I just
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
OP here. It's a film company and a lot of those 100 people are artists and contractors. I put a lot of my own money into the company and took out a PPP loan to keep us afloat. So no, we didn't have the money to hire cloud support.
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
It claims that the operation will make a copy instead of transition the objects, which as far as I understood it would have then deleted the original objects and accomplished something relatively similar but with an extra copy step.
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
As far as I understand it, the operation creates a copy and deletes the original, which should succeed in reducing costs. What it doesn't do is delete incomplete multipart uploads and it may not operate recursively.
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
OP here. The warning doesn't actually have to do with what resulted in the additional charge, unless I'm missing something big.
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
After 8 months and many messages, they didn't waive a single dollar.
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
Creating a copy was not what resulted in the extra charge. It's a warning about a completely different thing.
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
It says that it will make a copy of the object. However, that was not what caused the charges. The charges were caused because (a) selecting all does not select incomplete multipart uploads, which are hidden in the interface, and (b) I beli
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AWS faulty UX cost our business $7k and they refused to do anything about it(mikemorgenstern.medium.com)
82 points by mikeyla85 6y ago|114 comments
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
Awesome, thank you, I appreciate it very much!
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
You encouraged me to create a Medium account :) How's this? https://mikemorgenstern.medium.com/awss-faulty-ux-cost-our-b...
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AWS faulty UX cost our business $7k and they refused to do anything about it(facebook.com)
3 points by mikeyla85 6y ago|5 comments
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by mikeyla85 6y ago
A picture is worth, like, 100 words
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Indiegogo cancels nonprofit campaigns midway(facebook.com)
2 points by mikeyla85 9y ago|0 comments
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VC Brad Feld “inspired to” sponsor campaign to lift up Muslim voices(feld.com)
8 points by mikeyla85 10y ago|0 comments
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by mikeyla85 11y ago
Whoo! Medal is great!
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Search Is Back: The Unofficial Facebook Advanced Search Engine(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mikeyla85 11y ago|0 comments
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by mikeyla85 11y ago
afaik that's not how it works in the 2006 Pasaat, you have to actually shut the mirror door or it stays on, even if the car is off. The service rep said this was fixed in later models.
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by mikeyla85 11y ago
The last time I used them was earlier this year, around February. I opened the visor before and after the trip (but not slid out the visor lights), to put a garage clicker on it. The light was definitely not open.

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