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So move out to a cloud that doesn’t charge egress. Unless of course you went all in on IAM, Lambda, API gateway etc etc instead of just running software on Linux. In which case you’ll need to stay.
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Beginner here, but shouldn't `terraform destroy` make this very easy? Assuming you deploy everything with IaC.
There can be resources created implicitly, even when using IaC tools. One example, create a lambda, without an explicit log group, one will be automatically created for you outside of the tracked state.
> The waiver on data transfer out to the internet charges also follows the direction set by the European Data Act and is available to all AWS customers around the world and from any AWS Region. Thank you, EU, on behalf of the rest of the world
It’s way too early to thank them. Wait 5-10 years, see what effect it has on prices, competition etc
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Invisible hand works in perfect markets which never exist in reality. It is used as a smokescreen by the people with insane amounts of money who can bend the rules to their will, to convince the rest of the people how the economy works. Like most of economics
Adam Smith himself never claimed it was that simple. He also wrote on ethics (and regarded that book as more important IIRC). He also warned that those is the same trade would inevitably conspire against the public.
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It’s way too early to thank them. Wait 5-10 years, see what effect it has on prices, competition etc
GCP, Azure and AWS have been here for more than 10 years, free to do almost whatever they want. Did the prices decrease and competions pop up everywhere ?
https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/amazon-ceo-andy-j...
One of the other question is whether you have to delete all data / close your account 60 days after you transfer out without fee: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1765102310563500521 Probably obeying the letter of the European Data Act, but obviously not great if true.
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https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress contains a pretty good overview of Amazon’s margins.
Yes You just have to believe that, on the scale on AWS, 1Mbps in Europe costs 0.08$ (includes the transit, the hardware, the people etc). This includes every networking parts : do not forget the switches and stuff : VPC are free, and intra-zone network is free. Someone must pay, so it is sane to assume that "someone" is partly cross-region, partly internet egress, partly cross-zone. Don't forget the R&D that revolves…
Also snarky statements such as the ones you are making do not particularly help your argument.
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Iterate over all S3 buckets in your terraform files and add `force_destroy` to them [1], then apply and destroy. There could probably be an automated tool for this that wouldn't be too complex. [1] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest...
Does that take care of deleting the files inside the bucket? That's an API call ($). Depending on the data that could be quite a bit.
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It’s way too early to thank them. Wait 5-10 years, see what effect it has on prices, competition etc
How can the ability to transfer data to another cloud provider or your own server increase price?? Doesn't that mean there is more & fairer competition?
Companies don’t like to have their bottom line affected.