The service gateways are such a weird thing in AWS. There seems to be no reason not to use them and it's like they only exist as a trap for the unaware.
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#12> AWS charges $0.09 per GB for data transfer out to the internet from most regions, which adds up fast when you're moving terabytes of data.
How does this actually work? So you upload your data to AWS S3 and then if you wish to get it back, you pay per GB of what you stored there?
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#13I made the same mistake and blew $60k.
I have never understood why the S3 endpoint isn't deployed by default, except to catch people making this exact mistake.
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#14Ah, the good old VPC NAT Gateway.
I was lucky to have experienced all of the same mistakes for free (ex-Amazon employee). My manager just got an email saying the costs had gone through the roof and asked me to look into it.
Feel bad for anyone that actually needs to cough up money for these dark patterns.
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#16> AWS charges $0.09 per GB for data transfer out to the internet from most regions, which adds up fast when you're moving terabytes of data. How does this actually work? So you upload your data to AWS S3 and then if you wish to get it back, you pay per GB of what you stored there?
Yes uploading into AWS is free/cheap. You pay per GB of data downloaded, which is not cheap.
You can see why, from a sales perspective: AWS' customers generally charge their customers for data they download - so they are extracting a % off that. And moreover, it makes migrating away from AWS quite expensive in a lot of circumstances.
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#17Does Amazon refund you for mistakes, or do you have to land on HN frontpage for that to happen?
Hahaha. I'll update the post once I hear back from them. One could hope that they might consider an account credit.
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#18NAT gateway probably cheap as fuck for Bezos & co to run but nice little earner. The parking meter or exit ramp toll of cloud infra. Cheap beers in our bar but $1000 curb usage fee to pull up in your uber.
I think it's been calculated that data transfer is the biggest margin product in all AWS catalog by a huge difference. A 2021 calculation done by Cloudflare [0] estimated almost 8000% price markup in EU and US regions.
And I can see how, in very big accounts, small mistakes on your data source when you're doing data crunching, or wrong routing, can put thousands and thousands of dollars on your bill in less than an hour.
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0: https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/Re: A $1k AWS mistake
#19> AWS charges $0.09 per GB for data transfer out to the internet from most regions, which adds up fast when you're moving terabytes of data. How does this actually work? So you upload your data to AWS S3 and then if you wish to get it back, you pay per GB of what you stored there?
Yes. It’s not very subtle.
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#20If you want to avoid any kind of traffic fees, simply don't allow routing outside of your VPC by default.