I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left

Re:I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left by maccard on Sunday May 10, 2026 @09:57AM (#48084034)

If you let it go that far then you were going to blow it one way or another - it’s not an excuse to totally ignore the cloud spend but it’s a n excuse to defer it to a later date. If your successful, fix it, if your not then AWS aren’t getting paid anyway!

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Re:I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left by xmcp123 on Sunday May 10, 2026 @10:24AM (#48084240)

Yeah, they had an impossible to use number of credits (YC) until they expired, so every problem became a AWS solution.

As an example, they needed a lot of proxy servers. Instead of just using a proxy service, there was a fleet of ec2 instances.

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Re:I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left by maccard on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:55PM (#48088513)

If all you have is AWS credits suddenly every problem looks like EC2.

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