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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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