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Re:My Frugal Indie Dev Startup Stack by sakopov on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:53AM (#37036141)
> I use AWS EC2 for Waitlist's backend python webserver, RDS for the postgres database, S3 for file storage, and an Elastic IP

Honestly, if you're using AWS for VPS, S3 and RDS you're better off on something like DigitalOcean or no cloud at all.

Also, I don't understand using SendGrid and Sentry when you're already on AWS and have SES and CloudWatch. You could even connect CloudWatch with PagerDuty via alarms and milk their free tier to get notified when you have errors. You can use CloudWatch pretty extensively and still stay within the free tier and I think SES would be ~$10/mo at their volume.

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Re:My Frugal Indie Dev Startup Stack by zeeg on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:17PM (#37038404)
Genuine question, have you used Sentry? Cloudwatch provides very, very different capabilities.
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Re:My Frugal Indie Dev Startup Stack by waitlist on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:49PM (#37038884)
Blog author here. I'll be downgrading from Sendgrid to SES in the foreseeable future.

Sentry is a great product, CloudWatch is a real pain to use.

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