The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
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The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
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Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
#2What's wrong with using RDS in production? I'd rather do that than build around a vendor-lock-in Amazon offering when not strictly necessary. I'd also rather do that than administer a database myself.
Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
#3What's wrong with using RDS in production? I'd rather do that than build around a vendor-lock-in Amazon offering when not strictly necessary. I'd also rather do that than administer a database myself.
"...AWS RDS Sevice. It offers t2.micro for free during the first 12 months. It is fine for development. However, I will not recommend using it in production."
I think maybe they were talking specifically about not using the t2.micro instance size in production.
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#4What's wrong with using RDS in production? I'd rather do that than build around a vendor-lock-in Amazon offering when not strictly necessary. I'd also rather do that than administer a database myself.
Nothing is "wrong" with it, you just can't feasibly do it for free.
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#5TL;DR: Not free, but ~$6/year for the first year, ~$20/year thereafter
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#6I always enjoy articles like this, but must counterbalance with the vast vast cost saving of working with a stack with which you're familiar.
Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
#7What's wrong with using RDS in production? I'd rather do that than build around a vendor-lock-in Amazon offering when not strictly necessary. I'd also rather do that than administer a database myself.
Hi ameliaquining, like bootlooped pointed out, I am suggesting to not use t2.micro in production and not RDS.
Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
#8Is it generally reliable asking Amazon support what capacity you need for a particular use case, so you're not buying more than needed? e.g. a service that might be used once per day for a minute, and another day it might get used a dozen times for maybe an hour, and only during fixed business hours. And there are general purpose, compute optimized, storage optimized, etc. But what if the service is more network latency sensitive than either storage or compute sensitive?
Or are there 3rd party estimators that do a better job of telling you what kind of instance to get? Or just pick a general purpose instance, run it for a week, and then tweak it?
Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
#9TL;DR: Not free, but ~$6/year for the first year, ~$20/year thereafter
I think I lose more coins out of my pocket on the street yearly
Re: The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
#10TL;DR: Not free, but ~$6/year for the first year, ~$20/year thereafter
Yup, also note in there - "You will have $0 bill in first 12 months if your S3 storage is below 5GB, CloudFront traffic stays below 50GB/Month and API Gateway requests are less than 1 million a month, or you get 666 user sessions a month compared to the 1,000 user sessions I picked while running these calculations."