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AWS services explained in one line each

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Post by djsumdog »

scarface74 wrote: post #125
coder543 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t that exactly what the person you replied to said? You’re showing what you’ve been charged for previously. That part works, at a certain level of detail. That doesn’t show what you are being charged for right now , nor does it help you predict what your total costs will be at the end of the month.

If you set up your infrastructure with CloudFormation (as you should), you can get a cost estimation of how much your solution would cost. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

> CloudFormation (as you should)

A lot of people use Terraform (my shop does) and I've found a good terraform setup way better than CF templates. You can do tags in Terraform too. You should be forced to use their already bad tooling just to get correct cost estimates.

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Post by scarface74 »

djsumdog wrote: post #141
scarface74 wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you set up your infrastructure with CloudFormation (as you should), you can get a cost estimation of how much your solution would cost. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

> CloudFormation (as you should) A lot of people use Terraform (my shop does) and I've found a good terraform setup way better than CF templates. You can do tags in Terraform too. You should be forced to use their already bad tooling just to get correct cost estimates.

Yet another reason to use native tooling. If you want to take advantage of AWS features - you have to use AWS features.

Blame Hashicorp if they don’t have a similar feature.

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Post by rudolph9 »

exhaze wrote: post #52
davedx wrote: post #26

Consider that your typical enterprise software project will use quite a lot of these, and that you pay for them all separately, and sometimes pay twice for them (e.g. S3 you pay for storage and for outbound bandwidth). It's quite a tour de force how Amazon have taken "separation of concerns", applied it to web services and used it to create complex and difficult to understand or predict pricing to print money. Bravo.

Have you ever used AWS? There's a whole suite of tools they provide around pricing and budgeting. > It's quite a tour de force how Amazon have taken "separation of concerns", applied it to web services and used it to create complex and difficult to understand or predict pricing to print money. Is applying separation of concerns to web services really that bad? Look, if you're a small company with a simple product, yo…

They’re literally entire companies of 100+ employees selling a product that helps you figure out how much money you’re spending on AWS https://www.cloudability.com/

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Post by rudolph9 »

It seems there is a a lot of back and forth on this thread about AWS good/bad. On the one side, people seem offended people use AWS at all Which common it serves a need and generally does what it’s supposed to. On the other side it’s like Stockholm syndrome, do people seriously believe AWS is there for you and hasn’t trapped you in dependency of their services?

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Post by victords »

s_dev wrote: post #31

Similar to https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/ Why does AWS use such convoluted language? Is it because they're dominant and it adds friction to moving to another provider?

My personal theory is that they made such a bad naming decision on their first service that they just committed to it and doubled down from there on.

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Post by nostrebored »

jaytaph wrote: post #134
erwincaco wrote: post #126

> Amazon Connect AWS version of ZenDesk Wrong. That should be "Amazon's Cloud-based Contact Center" > Pinpoint Create transactional emails based on templates. Pinpoint can do SMS and voice too.

Isn't that what ZenDesk is too? Yes, pinpoint can do more.. Will update

ZenDesk is a CRM/ticketing system. Amazon Connect integrates with ZenDesk CRM.

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Post by philipodonnell »

v8engine wrote: post #19

Reminded me of these similar threads I read a while earlier: Azure: https://web.archive.org/web/20190321175020/https://www.exped... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442597 AWS: https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10202286

Any update to the Azure list anyone has seen? 2017 is a long time ago.
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