Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

Re:Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014 by yeukhon on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @05:18PM (#7476747)

Small yes. Large bill wasn't so easy. Once I had an excess $40 added to my bill after a network attack. I was able to down to $10 after a few emails back and forth. Another time I had something low like $10 and they credit me right away without problem. Depends on how large your bill...

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Re:Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014 by beering on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @06:42PM (#7477186)

You live in a very different world from me if a "large bill" is an extra $40. For even a small company like who I work for, any fluctuations in our AWS bill under $100 would probably go unnoticed. Our total infrastructure cost (of which AWS is a small part) is in 5 digits.

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Re:Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014 by judk on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:17PM (#7478384)

Surely your dev team laptops total 5 digits already.

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Re:Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014 by yeukhon on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @07:37PM (#7477497)

Personal website of course it would be a big sum...

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Re:Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014 by balls187 on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @07:44PM (#7477529)

According to her, she would routinely have one-time massive fee's credited ($1000+).

I'd assume since it's a spike in costs, Amazon has more interest in keeping you as a customer, at your much lower typical usage, than to have you abandon, even if you have a huge bill.

Obviously if this was a typical problem, you would need to rethink your architecture and infrastructure needs.

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