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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by YetAnotherNick on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:14AM (#42928702)
Not only that, people always assume that you need complicated dependencies if they use AWS and compare any of the other company's stack with their raspberry pi. They can use AWS lightsail just fine for $5 if they just need a VM.
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by darkwater on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:17AM (#42929156)
If you just need a VM why not a plain EC2 instance? Why are you adding already lock-in to the secret sauce?
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by graemep on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:02AM (#42929484)
lightsail is just an EC2 instance plus storage. Its pretty much just a VPS. No extra locking. Its what I push people determined to use AWS because of the branding towards.
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by theshrike79 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:46AM (#42930761)
IMO if you're using plain EC2 alone you should not be using AWS anyway.

Go grab a similar server from Hetzner or something.

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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by YetAnotherNick on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @06:06AM (#42930895)
Lightsail is cheaper, but lacks additional enterprise-y features like VPC.
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by bschwindHN on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:55PM (#42943549)
That's fair too, those $5 a month machines can also serve you well as long as you can limit bandwidth charges if you suddenly end up with a lot of traffic.
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