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Andrew Brown πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

The effort to determine pricing was what kept me off on AWS platform for years.
Once you get used to its okay but it is quite the initial deterrent.

AWS Budgets is free and really good at helping you visualize what you're spending day to day.

The only pricing I calculate mostly is EC2 instances and so it's around ~730 hours per month.
So I'm doing lots of 730 x 0.XX

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Yaser Al-Najjar

I do the day to day calculation, but it's still not giving me accurate numbers per month (Cuz of the calculation of the free tier 😐).

The last time I contacted the AWS support about calculations he taught me how to use the monthly report in excel and see the usage per service and estimate the price; their support is elite, but seriously, doing calculation in excel everytime I use an extra service sucks!

I had 4 instances on EC2, tried moving into digital ocean the previous month... worked pretty well, and I'm planning to move another instance just for that reason!