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This is why they make so much money. Flat rate hosting is the only way I’ll go. They bank on smaller bills and hope not everyone calls.
Since the very beginning AWS has been an adversary to their own customers. Either you invested your time/money in deeply knowing their ins and outs ( And you're fine spending your life that way ) or you're just a cog inside someones else's big wallet and don't care. If you're not a big corp or don't have VC money to burn, there are much better options than AWS. The feeling of not getting f"#$ed over every step of the…
This is why they make so much money. Flat rate hosting is the only way I’ll go. They bank on smaller bills and hope not everyone calls.
I prefer Digital Ocean, at least I know what it will cost, and working with the product is straightforward. Even huge company like the one I work for gets stressed out over bills when we do anything new with AWS (our budgeting process is scary too). At least they usually will help us out when things go wrong given how much dinero we give them.
Yep until you go over the traffic limit and they start charging you more
It’s very helpful. You can still end up overspending but at least you get an email within a day letting you know what’s going on, which can solve a lot of the cost overruns by giving you a chance to act quickly and only get hit with 1/30 the monthly fee.
nothing new under the sun, once again.
TL;DR: Misleading title. Amazon service came through. * Author clicked through Amazon UI/UX, and ended up with a huge bill. * The UI/UX was confusing and poorly designed -- at no point was he shown he'd pay anything, let alone a lot. * He was refunded the money AND given credits to make up for the hassle. This is one of my key frustrations with Amazon. (1) I'd like services like RDS or similar on a pay-as-you-go fash…
Yet, they stubbornly refuse the requests for a hard cap. People were asking for it for years. Some are using ugly hacks like trying prepaid cards: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/8eaad5/use_a_prepaid_c...
TL;DR: Misleading title. Amazon service came through. * Author clicked through Amazon UI/UX, and ended up with a huge bill. * The UI/UX was confusing and poorly designed -- at no point was he shown he'd pay anything, let alone a lot. * He was refunded the money AND given credits to make up for the hassle. This is one of my key frustrations with Amazon. (1) I'd like services like RDS or similar on a pay-as-you-go fash…
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I prefer Digital Ocean, at least I know what it will cost, and working with the product is straightforward. Even huge company like the one I work for gets stressed out over bills when we do anything new with AWS (our budgeting process is scary too). At least they usually will help us out when things go wrong given how much dinero we give them.
>at least I know what it will cost Yep until you go over the traffic limit and they start charging you more
> The community has requested this many times and you promised the feature yet stalled it for many years now.
People in this thread say they started promising this in 2006.