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Re: AWS free tier data transfer expansion

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Post by tyingq »

marsouin wrote: post #3

Well if that isn't a direct answer to https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/ ...

A partial direct answer that's still less free egress than almost every other free tier and/or sub $5/VPS. And as far as I can tell, the egregious pricing is still there once you're past the free limit.

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #8
nixgeek wrote: post #5

It went from 1GB to 100GB, meanwhile Oracle is offering 10TB on their Free Tier. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

Yeah, but then you have to use Oracle

I've used Oracle Cloud, and it's actually pretty nice and well-designed at least from my point of view. It gives the AWS Dashboard a run for their m̵o̵n̵e̵y̵ egress fees.

But I still don't run anything important on it or push the limits of the free tier. Oracle doesn't have a good reputation. Also "Oracle Unbreakable Linux" is literally just RHEL rebranded, but it's not a community project and they don't like to acknowledge it so it feels particularly shameless; especially since they are selling "support" for it.

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Post by kbenson »

eatonphil wrote: post #10
shepherdjerred wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but then you have to use Oracle

Let's not poo poo actual competition. If Oracle _wants_ to compete with AWS that's a pretty good thing for everyone.

Yes, it's definitely good if it causes AWS, GCE, Azure, etc to increase allowances to compete, even if you (like me) plan to never touch that Oracle service with a ten foot pole attached to someone else's computer.

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Post by Guest19023892 »

marsouin wrote: post #3

Well if that isn't a direct answer to https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/ ...

I use 500GB - 1TB per month on Cloudfront, costing about $50-100 per month, and I was going to move this over to Cloudflare to take advantage of their savings. However, this AWS change will basically wipe out my entire Cloudfront bill. I should send Cloudflare a Christmas card to say thanks.

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Post by tyingq »

Guest19023892 wrote: post #16
marsouin wrote: post #3

Well if that isn't a direct answer to https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/ ...

I use 500GB - 1TB per month on Cloudfront, costing about $50-100 per month, and I was going to move this over to Cloudflare to take advantage of their savings. However, this AWS change will basically wipe out my entire Cloudfront bill. I should send Cloudflare a Christmas card to say thanks.

It leaves you pretty close to the edge of paying 8.5+ cents/GB when you go over though.

Re: AWS free tier data transfer expansion

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Post by Epskampie »

AWS free tier is horrible. You have to enter a creditcard to sign up, and then there is no way to prevent it being charged when you go over the limit for some reason. If you get on the frontpage of HN for example, you might be majorly screwed.

It's a test account, I just want it to shut down when the limit is reached.

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