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Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Post by jasonkester »

leoalves wrote: post #57

Hey Jason congrats on your product. Really liked your writing style. Very funny and informative. Nice job. Do you worry about amazon releasing something to analyse the logs and killing your business? They just released Amazon QuickSight in beta and I think you will probably be able to import logs from their services. Of course the user will have to create the reports themselves but I guess your audience is tech savvy…

Absolutely. But it's been 10 years now, and the best they've come up with is a sort of stripped down Cloudwatch-style request count graph for Cloudfront usage. That did actually cause a bit of a dip in signups when it came out, but I think there's still a need for more detailed reports.

But yeah, the expectation is that they'll squash it dead any minute now. I'm hoping that the next thing I'm building will have replaced S3stat as an income stream by the time that happens.

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Post by jasonkester »

whizzkid wrote: post #58

Here are my 2 cents about the pricing page you have @jasonkester "Cheap Bastard Plan" is both little too much slang, and unpleasant to look at if you are in a demo to show this service to upper management. I am not saying that you should have a boring, enterprisey pricing page with formal words, in fact I really like what you did there with free plan. Just saying that you can rephrase it with little more easy-going w…

You'll want Upper Management to be looking at the Features Page[1] instead. Though I should probably add some more check marks to it just to be on the safe side.

[1] https://www.s3stat.com/Features.aspx

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Post by enraged_camel »

oldmanjay wrote: post #59
whizzkid wrote: post #58

Here are my 2 cents about the pricing page you have @jasonkester "Cheap Bastard Plan" is both little too much slang, and unpleasant to look at if you are in a demo to show this service to upper management. I am not saying that you should have a boring, enterprisey pricing page with formal words, in fact I really like what you did there with free plan. Just saying that you can rephrase it with little more easy-going w…

I would like to encourage you to rename it the "Cheap Fucking Bastard Plan" because discomfort amongst the corporate set is good for America.

The "I Embezzled the Entire Department Budget and Spent It On Hookers and Cocaine" plan

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Post by ArcticCelt »

jasonkester wrote: post #16
masklinn wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a hilarious page, but I wouldn't call it "informatively" good, you can't easily eyeball the difference between the plans in the way the good ol' pricing grid would show.

There's a pretty 3-column pricing grid sitting unused on the server, after a day of painstaking pixel nudging then 30 days of pummeling in an A/B test against that ugly wall of text you see today. I'm as surprised as you. But I'm not arguing against math.

I love how you repeatedly shame the cheap bastards who "cannot" afford a $10 service into taking the paying plan while still giving them the option to take the cheap bastard plan. :)

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Post by kenrikm »

whizzkid wrote: post #58

Here are my 2 cents about the pricing page you have @jasonkester "Cheap Bastard Plan" is both little too much slang, and unpleasant to look at if you are in a demo to show this service to upper management. I am not saying that you should have a boring, enterprisey pricing page with formal words, in fact I really like what you did there with free plan. Just saying that you can rephrase it with little more easy-going w…

Or he could keep it as it is.. add a link to the page for a new page "For the Big Wigs" that's more enterprisey and uses words like "synergy"

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Post by NikolaeVarius »

I'm actually quite amazed that a more fleshed out solution to AWS logging doesn't exist. I've worked on a small side project to pipe AWS logs to arbitrary locations for work purposes so that they could be visualized in whatever tool of your choosing

Mind if you could cover some broad details about how things are handled in the back end?

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Post by jasonkester »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #67

I'm actually quite amazed that a more fleshed out solution to AWS logging doesn't exist. I've worked on a small side project to pipe AWS logs to arbitrary locations for work purposes so that they could be visualized in whatever tool of your choosing Mind if you could cover some broad details about how things are handled in the back end?

I've been meaning to write that blog post for a long time.

In broad terms, EC2 is the perfect fit for a service like this, that needs to run something like 100 hours of computing each day, but needs that all to happen during a 3 hour window before Europe wakes up in the morning. It's even more fun when something breaks and I get to spin up 200 machines in one go. For like ten dollars.

I use something like 8 different AWS services for various bits of the thing. Everything from computing to storage to queueing & mail. I even used them for payment at one point.

I'll try to get that writeup out the door.

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Post by gravypod »

jsingleton wrote: post #17
markwillis82 wrote: post #8

As a recently new customer to AWS. This service sounds really useful. Quite possibly one of the best pricing pages[1] I've seen in a while too. [1] https://www.s3stat.com/Pricing.aspx

AWS pricing is crazy complicated. I gave a presentation on this a few years ago ( https://speakerdeck.com/jpsingleton/aws-pricing ). It may be a bit out of date by now but I could update it and write it up as a blog post if people are interested?

Definitely do it. I need someone to explain it too me. Too many ifs ands and buts for it to make sense.

Re: Amazon flipped a default and made me thousands of dollars

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Post by gravypod »

markwillis82 wrote: post #8

As a recently new customer to AWS. This service sounds really useful. Quite possibly one of the best pricing pages[1] I've seen in a while too. [1] https://www.s3stat.com/Pricing.aspx

This is one of those services that looks do perfectly executed I'm surprised they haven't been bought out by Amazon.

Looks like a great dev and a polished product.

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