AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data

Re:AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data by semiotagonal on Monday October 21, 2019 @06:51PM (#21318432)

Unless I'm making a mistake someplace, Digital Ocean includes 1TB egress to the internet from a $5-per-month host. On Google Cloud Platform that egress would cost $120/month by itself.

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#Compute

https://cloud.google.com/compute/network-pricing

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data by privateSFacct on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:13AM (#21321609)

What you find is if you spin up 1000 of these $5 hosts (ie, $5000 per month which is pretty) and try to egress 1PB per month you can't. Either they disconnect you, the systems can't actually handle it or some other gimmick.

One thing folks like about AWS - you can actually know what you will be paying and there is no fake / hidden limits.

That's my somewhat outdated experience wasting a TON of time on this idea ages ago.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:01AM (#21331539)

But going back to the original number of $0.01/GB, that's what they state upfront as a bandwidth overage cost. I would be very surprised if they disliked customers paying the overage fee. And that's still only $10k per petabyte, vastly cheaper than AWS.

Give them a warning if you're going to spike your bill that high, but there shouldn't be any fake/hidden limits.

[ Parent | on HN ]