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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 eip »

seanwilson wrote: post #80
jsingleton wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 It may be a bit out of date by now but I could update it and write it up as a blog post if people are interested?

> AWS pricing is crazy complicated. I agree strongly with this. I've had clients before who would refuse to make the move up from VPSs despite numerous advantages because the AWS product descriptions and prices were incomprehensible to them.

It's not hard. Just figure out what your costs would be on dedicated or colocated hardware. Then multiply by 10.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

eip wrote: post #101
seanwilson wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> AWS pricing is crazy complicated. I agree strongly with this. I've had clients before who would refuse to make the move up from VPSs despite numerous advantages because the AWS product descriptions and prices were incomprehensible to them.

It's not hard. Just figure out what your costs would be on dedicated or colocated hardware. Then multiply by 10.

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

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Post by kristianp »

jasonkester wrote: post #29
pmontra wrote: post #26

Off topic but about that blog: please make the text darker. I had to zoom it at 1 cm per line before being able to read it comfortably (some 400 dpi screen). My tablet is laying over a magazine and I can read its darker text at less than half the size.

Excellent timing. I was getting a bit grey-texted out while proofreading it this morning, and actually made the code change on the dev side. But the blog started seeing a dozen requests per second before I could push the change live, and I've been in "nobody touch nothin'!" mode ever since. But I snuck that CSS change in just now.

I think the problem is the font-weight. I wasn't really able to read the page until I changed it from 300 to 400. I don't think anyone should reduce the font-weight of their body text, it just looks too greyed-out.

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

#104

Post by wpaladin »

jasonkester wrote: post #62
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

There's a typo there - "complements", not "compliments". "S3STAT is a service that compliments Amazon's CloudFront and S3 offerings"

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

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Post by hossbeast »

jasonkester wrote: post #46
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

If I'd had the forethought to build up a sock puppet HN account before writing the article, this is the comment I'd use it to write. Thanks for that. Now I have two sites getting pummeled at once.

Your pricing page was fun to read, thanks

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

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Post by jdormit »

nbevans wrote: post #18
jsingleton wrote: post #14

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Wouldn't it be easier to use GitHub or GitLab pages for a static site?

Depends on the scenario really. If you want it version controlled, yeah sure. But there are other use cases that don't need that. You just want a "publishing target" that is low cost and minimal complexity. Plus GitHub/GitLab don't have the same number of availability-9's that Azure Blob Storage or AWS S3 can have.

Have you heard of Surge (https://surge.sh)? Pretty nails the 'low cost and minimal complexity' target for static hosting, although I don't know how well it scales.

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

#107

Post by anbende »

devopsproject wrote: post #76
jrs235 wrote: post #60

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Touche. Perhaps "Cheap Side Project Plan" would work. Most upper managers wouldn't want their project(s) to be considered mere side projects...

Not everything needs to be sanitized to protect the delicate sensibilities of America's boardroom.

Only those things that one is hoping to sell in those boardrooms...

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

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Post by sairamkunala »

mindingdata wrote: post #92
sairamkunala wrote: post #86

Isn't a similar thing possible through ELK stack for those who are already maintaining one, the logs should be sent to Elastic Search for indexing. It might not be as customisable as this product.

Definitely possible but as is the case with most Saas products, It's much easier and convenient to just pay someone $10 a month to do it for you rather than hosting an entire ELK stack somewhere (And having to upskill to get it all working efficiently).

I agree. it works if companies are not already using an ELK stack. Looks like a great product!

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

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Post by ars »

jasonkester wrote: post #46
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

If I'd had the forethought to build up a sock puppet HN account before writing the article, this is the comment I'd use it to write. Thanks for that. Now I have two sites getting pummeled at once.

So, does his post qualify him for the Cheap Bastard Plan?

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

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Post by jsemrau »

eip wrote: post #101
seanwilson wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> AWS pricing is crazy complicated. I agree strongly with this. I've had clients before who would refuse to make the move up from VPSs despite numerous advantages because the AWS product descriptions and prices were incomprehensible to them.

It's not hard. Just figure out what your costs would be on dedicated or colocated hardware. Then multiply by 10.

Everything is hard if you try it for the first time.
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