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Re: AWS free tier data transfer expansion

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Post by staticassertion »

Hamuko wrote: post #30
staticassertion wrote: post #22

> Data Transfer from AWS Regions to the Internet This only applies to the free tier, which you age out of after a year. Who even cares? Or am I misreading this? They can do a lot better than this. edit: It appears that the regional transfer doesn't age out either, even though it isn't explicitly stated in this post (whereas they did state so for Cloudfront).

Not everything in the free tier expires after 12 months. Some remain always free. Even now you should be getting 1 GB of free out traffic on your older-than-12-months AWS account.

I found it very unclear because the next section explicitly states that, in the case of Cloudfront traffic, it won't age out. But they don't make that statement about the regional traffic.

Re: AWS free tier data transfer expansion

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Post by beheh »

staticassertion wrote: post #28
beheh wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Data Transfer from Amazon CloudFront is now free for up to 1 TB of data per month (up from 50 GB), and is no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup.

Right, that's why I quoted the other section.

My bad, I thought you were quoting the article title. I see it's been cleared up in other replies now.

Re: AWS free tier data transfer expansion

#33

Post by deegles »

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.

I want to compete in the Olympics, but whether that actually happens is a different question.

Re: AWS free tier data transfer expansion

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Post by Hamuko »

staticassertion wrote: post #31
Hamuko wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everything in the free tier expires after 12 months. Some remain always free. Even now you should be getting 1 GB of free out traffic on your older-than-12-months AWS account.

I found it very unclear because the next section explicitly states that, in the case of Cloudfront traffic, it won't age out. But they don't make that statement about the regional traffic.

I'm guessing that's because the regional traffic never aged out before.

Re: AWS free tier data transfer expansion

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Post by Hamuko »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #9
marsouin wrote: post #3

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

AWS giving you 95GB egress for free is not at all a direct answer to the insane prices

Just because it isn't as good doesn't mean it's not a direct answer. This is basically the lowest hanging fruit response AWS can give against Cloudflare to convince people not to migrate over.

Maybe the idea is that if you're doing 1+ TB of CloudFront traffic, you're already deeply locked into AWS anyways and less willing to make the jump anyways.

Re: AWS free tier data transfer expansion

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Post by awsthro00945 »

staticassertion wrote: post #29
awsthro00945 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're misreading it. Only some parts of the free tier "age out". Other parts of the free tier are free forever (it's really stupidly confusing). The things announced in this announcement are free forever.

Thanks, that wasn't clear to me. I'll edit my post.

It's stupidly confusing because the regional transfer of 1GB free per month isn't technically part of the "Free Tier" as advertised on this page [0], it's just part of the normal egress pricing model of the individual services [1] [2]. So I guess really this announcement post is misleading/confusing because the regional transfer increase is just a change in the normal pricing model, not the "Free Tier"... but really that's just semantics. AWS really needs to fix the "Free Tier" to make it less confusing.

0: https://aws.amazon.com/free/

1: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

2: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

Re: AWS free tier data transfer expansion

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Post by nanidin »

Epskampie wrote: post #20

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.

It has been a while since I messed with the AWS panel, but IIRC you can set budget alerts so you’re notified once a threshold is crossed. It’s not a perfect solution, but if you expect to spend $0 then an alert on $0.01 is pretty trivial to set up and goes a long way to prevent end of the month surprises.

Re: AWS free tier data transfer expansion

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Post by staticassertion »

awsthro00945 wrote: post #38
staticassertion wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, that wasn't clear to me. I'll edit my post.

It's stupidly confusing because the regional transfer of 1GB free per month isn't technically part of the "Free Tier" as advertised on this page [0], it's just part of the normal egress pricing model of the individual services [1] [2]. So I guess really this announcement post is misleading/confusing because the regional transfer increase is just a change in the normal pricing model, not the "Free Tier"... but really…

Thanks, really appreciate the detail. Edited my post.
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