You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it

Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by douglasisshiny on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:22PM (#31102476)

>Deployed few services on ecs, nat gateway, shared elb, certificate and route53.

>Total cost 30$ per day ~900$ per month.

Ummm... I think you're doing something incorrectly. The biggest line items on that list are ELB (assuming you mean Application Load Balancer/ALB) and NAT Gateway. But with that setup, I could maybe imagine $100/month with on-demand plans. Not $900.

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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by jcims on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:46PM (#31102797)

How can you say that with ECS on the list? You have no idea how much compute is being used.

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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by nucleardog on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @05:05PM (#31102992)

Well he said he can replicate it with a $5/mo setup elsewhere.

How much compute can you rent anywhere for $5/mo? How much compute can you get even buying the hardware and amortizing over its useful lifespan for $5/mo (~$300 total)?

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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by justinclift on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @06:14PM (#31103768)

Reading over the post, it says $5 in their "local lab". Which probably means using existing or older hardware, so the $5 is probably electricity costs or similar.

And it sounded more like a generalisation anyway. ;)

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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by sorry_outta_gas on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @05:00PM (#31102928)

ECS can get up there if you're backing with large ec2 instances or something

either way my biggest problem with services like AWS isn't really cost but that you end up using all of their SDKs and services out of convenicance and it becomes hard to track down or move away from.. it spiders out of control so fast that sometimes its better to spend an extra few weeks doing things the harder way that's not always an issue though espcially for startups

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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by hayd on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:36PM (#31102640)

NAT is $1/day and ELB is 60cents/day. So those can't (although those costs excludes data transfer...) be the biggest line items.

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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by Aea on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @04:46PM (#31102792)

NAT is $1/day *PER* AZ *PER* VPC.

Managed NAT Gateways can be a very substantial cost depending on your architecture. I believe the recommended VPC layout has 3 AZs so you're paying close to $100/month for a single VPC just for NAT.

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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by pojzon on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @05:20PM (#31103160)

Ding ding ding, ppl here dont take to account HA and disaster preventions you sometimes have to abaid to due to security certifications and regulations!

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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by hayd on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @05:50PM (#31103509)

So your comparison with your $5 local lab is not just less "convenient"!

Do you really need multi-multi-region failover redundancy? Do you really need multiple NATs in every region (it's easy to share one NAT Gateway across AZs, especially so if a region is only servicing DR)? Your numbers still sound high.

x $1 + y $0.60 to make up $30 is a _lot_ of regions/AZs.

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Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it by rstupek on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @07:56PM (#31104568)

Yes the $5/month lab setup compared to a globally redundant service.

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