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!
I once was charged $3000 USD from AWS because I misconfigured a server forgot about it and then got a bill at the end of the month.
Another time I accidentally selected a private certificate instead of a public one and they cost something like $500 USD.
Though AWS was good enough to reverse the charges in both cases and also before they even made it onto my credit card so no refunding on my card required. So I have never been screwed by 'technicality'.
This big fear is less of a concern because I have billing alarms and I now know how pricing works for core services, and I use AWS Budgets to help me visualize or catch any weird costs.
But yeah I think I should make a video tutorial series of something like 5 videos on this.
I got a mini heart attack on your $3000. It was reddit.com/r/nonononoyes/ material. I'm glad they didn't charge you. It is also good to know there are ways to mitigate this "problem".
Yes indeed. I think there would be a demand for cost centered trainings. For example, I use DigitalOcean, but I would prefer to use AWS because everybody uses AWS and for the industry it would be better if I did so I could have more experience on it. But the complexity and pricing pushes me off.
@andrew
Brown, thank you for the coupon code on the AWS training. If should have your Twitter listed here.
3000 USD in CAD is 4,017.45 so for me it was even worse after conversion.
Learning to deal with Cloud Computing pricing is like learning Regex, You put it off for years and once you feel enough friction and learn it you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner.
Full-stack development is losing its glided title, and so to stay competitive I had to say to myself, I HATE AWS so I'm going to be a master and jumped right in. One of my junior devs told me he hated Regex and so I said: "You shouldn't have told me that because I'm going to make you do it full time for a week." Cloud computing is still a mystery to most which is really good for job progression if you learn it now but it's going to become considered fundamental knowledge required in a few years I think.
I may just do this. I've been using AWS not just professionally, but for a small lab for the last 5+ years.
I actually have little test experiments I do to try and keep costs down. I spend typically between $11-20 USD a month. Think of it as TDD but for billing. Maybe I can write something up... hmm.
Had a quick look over the course... love it!
I really like AWS services, only thing that I don't like its complex pricing :(
Would love to see a simple way to calculate all the expected numbers per month.
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
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!
This is the reason why I use digitalcean instead. =(
I once was charged $3000 USD from AWS because I misconfigured a server forgot about it and then got a bill at the end of the month.
Another time I accidentally selected a private certificate instead of a public one and they cost something like $500 USD.
Though AWS was good enough to reverse the charges in both cases and also before they even made it onto my credit card so no refunding on my card required. So I have never been screwed by 'technicality'.
This big fear is less of a concern because I have billing alarms and I now know how pricing works for core services, and I use AWS Budgets to help me visualize or catch any weird costs.
But yeah I think I should make a video tutorial series of something like 5 videos on this.
I got a mini heart attack on your $3000. It was reddit.com/r/nonononoyes/ material. I'm glad they didn't charge you. It is also good to know there are ways to mitigate this "problem".
Yes indeed. I think there would be a demand for cost centered trainings. For example, I use DigitalOcean, but I would prefer to use AWS because everybody uses AWS and for the industry it would be better if I did so I could have more experience on it. But the complexity and pricing pushes me off.
@andrew Brown, thank you for the coupon code on the AWS training. If should have your Twitter listed here.
Pheeew!
Mistakes on AWS are often expensive, I had once a tough experience too: dev.to/0xrumple/comment/9e90
3000 USD in CAD is 4,017.45 so for me it was even worse after conversion.
Learning to deal with Cloud Computing pricing is like learning Regex, You put it off for years and once you feel enough friction and learn it you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner.
Full-stack development is losing its glided title, and so to stay competitive I had to say to myself, I HATE AWS so I'm going to be a master and jumped right in. One of my junior devs told me he hated Regex and so I said: "You shouldn't have told me that because I'm going to make you do it full time for a week." Cloud computing is still a mystery to most which is really good for job progression if you learn it now but it's going to become considered fundamental knowledge required in a few years I think.
This is my twitter, though I have yet to put it to good use.
twitter.com/examproco
How to set up billing alarms and other AWS caveats and potential pitfalls to avoid might make for a good article or tutorial.
What an interesting thread.
I may just do this. I've been using AWS not just professionally, but for a small lab for the last 5+ years.
I actually have little test experiments I do to try and keep costs down. I spend typically between $11-20 USD a month. Think of it as TDD but for billing. Maybe I can write something up... hmm.
Yep dude waiting for that writeup😉