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Re:Unbundling AWS by BurritoAlPastor on Sunday December 01, 2019 @03:41PM (#21677674)
There is nothing smooth about AWS's billing; it's notoriously byzantine, and so difficult to interpret that there are multiple third-party services whose entire offering is based on ingesting and parsing your AWS bill.
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Re:Unbundling AWS by solidasparagus on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:14PM (#21678163)
The value of AWS billing isn't that it's easy, it's that the spending decisions are in the hands of the right people so software development moves faster.
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Re:Unbundling AWS by jjoonathan on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:27PM (#21678223)
Yes, exactly. The billing tools are awful, have always been awful, and will always be awful, but bad tooling can be worked around much more readily than bad bureaucracy.
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