Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?

Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by throwaway894345 on Monday November 02, 2020 @02:19PM (#24971925)

I can't find a pricing chart for IAM, which is the cited example.

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by freeone3000 on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:49PM (#24973836)

IAM isn't a service. It's how you govern access control. Its nonsensical to charge for this, as an "IAM service instance" makes no sense.

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by throwaway894345 on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:30PM (#24974250)

You don't seem to understand what a 'service' is. In particular, you seem to think a service is something that operates on resources called 'instances'. Here's the Wikipedia definition of a web service:

> a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a network, serving web documents (HTML, JSON, XML, images), which serve in solving specific domain problems over the Web (WWW, Internet, HTTP)

Clearly IAM is a service.

Further, the service needn't operate on resources called "instances" in order to provide value--few AWS services offer "instance" resources and yet they deliver value to customers and are consequently priced. IAM isn't priced directly, but rather the operating cost for the service is built into other AWS services, presumably to encourage people towards security best-practices (charging for IAM might dissuade users from building securely).

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