Yup, I am seeing double as well.
Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
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#42i can't wait for this COE
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#43I usually get billed 54 to 58 cents per month. It's showing me 70 cents for the current month, for a projected 91 cents!
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#44I'm showing double the amount of hosted zones in Route 53. Kind of odd
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which other service provider puts a price tag on each HTTP request routed through a reverse proxy? Some service providers such as Hetzner don't even charge for bandwidth up to 20TB, but somehow AWS found a way to hike the bill per HTTP request.
I've never used AWS so perhaps I'm mistaken, but api gateways normally provide extra functionality on top of just proxying the request. You can still set up a server listening on port 80 or 443 with a public IP and make requests to it without being charged per request.
You can, and if you want to use Lambdas, you can also route to them from ALBs, which has a bit confusing of a pricing model for comparison, but has no per-request cost.
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#46Yes, seeing the same on the Billing & Cost Spend Summary; but the correct amounts are displayed in the AWS Cost Management dashboard [0]. [0] https://console.aws.amazon.com/cost-reports/home#/dashboard
Yes. This is the case for us too. Cost reports is showing accurate information.
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#47We were just about to submit a ticket when the forecast/breakdown returned to normal. Looks like fixes are rolling out.
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#48I was also seeing a surprising cost of about twice what I expected, but since I rarely use AWS I was assuming I had just calculated it wrong somehow. It's maddeningly difficult to see your usage history of services -- I still can't figure out how to see what my EC2 usage was this month. There is something called the "cost explorer" which I can't use yet, because apparently it takes 24 hours to set up (?), and it's no…
There is something called the "cost explorer" which I can't use yet, because apparently it takes 24 hours to set up (?), and it's not even clear that it will include my historical activity when it's ready... Cost Explorer itself also charges per use. I'm not kidding: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/pricing/
The API charges per use, but not the cost explorer dashboard itself.
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#49I was also seeing a surprising cost of about twice what I expected, but since I rarely use AWS I was assuming I had just calculated it wrong somehow. It's maddeningly difficult to see your usage history of services -- I still can't figure out how to see what my EC2 usage was this month. There is something called the "cost explorer" which I can't use yet, because apparently it takes 24 hours to set up (?), and it's no…
It will include your historical activity.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I don't think that's a strong example. Charging for utilization is the most obvious way to price a service, and http requests are the most obvious way to track utilization of an API gateway (or any load balancer).
Which other service provider puts a price tag on each HTTP request routed through a reverse proxy? Some service providers such as Hetzner don't even charge for bandwidth up to 20TB, but somehow AWS found a way to hike the bill per HTTP request.
Hetzner does not charge for bandwidth anymore starting from half a year-ish(?) ago. Unmetered gigabit.