AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now Wrong

Re:AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now Wrong by crinkly on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:49PM (#44964946)

It's actually incredibly cheap. I think our software distribution costs, in the account I run, are around $2.00 a month. That's pushing out several thousand MSI packages a day.

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Re:AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now Wrong by oblio on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:56PM (#44966932)

With CloudFront?

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Re:AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now Wrong by hnlmorg on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:19AM (#44970385)

S3 is actually quite expensive compared to the competition for both storage costs and egress costs. At a previous start-up, we had terrabytes of data on S3 and it was our second largest cost (after GPUs) and by some margin.

For small scale stuff, S3s storage and egress charges are unlikely to be impactful. But it doesn’t mean they’re cheap relative to the competition.

There are also ways you can reduce S3 costs, but then you're trading the costs received from AWS with the costs of hiring competent DevOps. Either way, you pay.

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