AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support

Re:AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support by kolev on Friday December 13, 2013 @01:54AM (#6899423)

Thanks for the downvote, but my experience is that for a relatively small project we started to receive $200+ monthly bills and had to switch to EC2.

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Re:AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support by kolev on Friday December 13, 2013 @02:39AM (#6899509)

Very small, but frequent DB updates. I wasn't responsible for the software, but simply put, it was a backend for a not-so-popular Chrome extension, which was doing authentication and persisting some state (a few integers). I'm sure the architecture could've been optimized specifically for AppEngine to reduce the cost, but why do you need to invest so much effort in optimizing something so basic that works just fine on EC2 m1.small or Digital Ocean for few bucks per month?

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Re:AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support by yahelc on Friday December 13, 2013 @10:30AM (#6900968)

FWIW, I'm currently maintaining a project that does half a billion API calls per month for ~$400/month

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Re:AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support by iampims on Friday December 13, 2013 @02:25AM (#6899488)

What was costing you $200+ monthly bills? CPU? Storage? Datastore operations?

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