I got pwned by my cloud costs

Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs by fbrncci on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:41AM (#30056918)

I have a pretty complicated architecture that would cost me about 20-35$ if it was hosted just on Digitalocean or Hetzner. Instead its AWS ...soon to be multicloud, and costs me about 140$/mo (which does vary). But it does allow me to experiment, write long articles and design some fun stuff; about which I blog on my own website. The blog has gotten me both clients on freelance projects and enough "cred" to start on new projects I don't have any resume experience on. That's the only reason that I personally use cloud services (of course, the reasons for SaaS/Enterprise clients are usually more valid than mine).

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Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs by rhn_mk1 on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:45AM (#30056943)

What stops you from having a blog on Hetzner? That doesn't seem like it has anything to do with AWS whatsoever... or do they offer a blogging pltform?

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Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs by fbrncci on Monday January 24, 2022 @08:05AM (#30057087)

I'm blogging about the experiments I am running with AWS hosted infrastructure. It could be hosted pretty much anywhere, a rpi would be enough. But I can't run those experiments on Hetzner, they simply don't offer as much options as AWS to run experiments.

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Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs by immibis on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:50AM (#30056987)

Because the blog is about his experiments in AWS?

AWS is cool and all and has a bunch of interesting stuff, it's just expensive.

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