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Hidden Costs of AWS

Has anyone experienced any hidden or unexpected costs of AWS, or surprises on their bills? Seems like there is a lot of that going on?
( 2 comments | on HN )
Re:Hidden Costs of AWS by thelazycoder on Monday May 07, 2018 @05:22PM (#17016585)
Its not a surprise if you research their price structure. Essentially they charge very small amounts every second or minute to accumulate through the month. It can sometimes be a difficult thing to calculate up front, but they aren't hiding anything from you. Its just not broken down by the month, and unfortunately its not all in one place..
Re:Hidden Costs of AWS by ddtaylor on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:18PM (#17015603)
Just bandwidth or leaked keys or badly configured services. AWS had always been good to me and waived obvious problems as a courtesy, although I use Vultr because it supports the features we need and has some easier ipv6 options worth using (prefix routing)