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Re:The Amazon Premium by Nican on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:31AM (#21836362)
This is not even talked about: One of the biggest cost of cloud is also bandwidth. Usually at about $0.10/GB of outbound transfer.
Re:The Amazon Premium by gwern on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:10PM (#21836809)
He includes a pointed link at the end to the Twitter of the AI Dungeon 2 guy - who discovered the hard way that when you have a popular app which involves downloading 6GB every time a new user shows up (or an old user, for that matter), you quickly hit $10k/day bills.
Re:The Amazon Premium by Nican on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:19PM (#21836925)
Oh wow- I had not looked at that in detail. TLDR: Guy puts free game online, and is charged $0.30 for every download, raking up a $10k bill.