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Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

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Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

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I opened a service ticket. My ec2 instances have somehow been running for over 950 hours in one month. I can go back and see my instances run for 744 hours (what i'd expect in a month) in previous months. Amazon invented more hours than actually exist in a month for billing purposes. Bezos is a genius! I should have thought of that!

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Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

#62

I opened a service ticket. My ec2 instances have somehow been running for over 950 hours in one month. I can go back and see my instances run for 744 hours (what i'd expect in a month) in previous months. Amazon invented more hours than actually exist in a month for billing purposes. Bezos is a genius! I should have thought of that!

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EC2 instances are now billed at per-second granularity, with a minimum charge of 60 seconds.

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

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Whenever I hear news like this, part of me feels bad for all the programmers working very long hours to fix the problem. You can be sure that a lot of pagers started to go off as soon as the reports of billing issues started to come in.

A colleague is a former AWS employee - my understanding is nobody wants to touch the billing code for this reason. I think that also explains why the billing interface leaves a bit to be desired.

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oh, ALBs. Now that's a mess. You'll either be charged per new connection, per concurrent connection, per byte, or per rule evaluation, depending on which is highest any given hour.

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing/

Re: Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

#69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

All those dashboards use the APIs underneath. The cost explorer dashboard certainly does incur API calls on my account.
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