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Re:Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014 by easy_rider on Thursday March 27, 2014 @05:09AM (#7479290)
I accidentally setup EC2's in another Region (and effectively "forgot" about them. Woke up with a 1.2k invoice + $250 more in charges for March.

Amazon voided all charges without question. Their level of customer support is off the charts. But AWS would never be my first pick to start up something. Your costs will be way way lower when going dedicated. Obviously you should be able to scale, but I think startups generally overestimate their success when it comes to that, and wasting a lot of money for things they have no use for yet.

You could have your AWS deployment strategies ready for when the need would arise..

Re:Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014 by greghinch on Thursday March 27, 2014 @05:48AM (#7479387)
Amazon also has a startup program where you can get like $7k or similar free AWS credit when you register. They do some basic checks, but it's pretty easy to get IIRC.
Re:Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014 by tiquorsj on Thursday March 27, 2014 @05:25AM (#7479334)
EC2 pricing is more in line with other vendors. S3 is silly cheap.