using AWS
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I was promised 15 years ago that cloud computing would avoid unexpected bills and provide consistent expenses that project managers love so much.
Who told you that?
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I was promised 15 years ago that cloud computing would avoid unexpected bills and provide consistent expenses that project managers love so much.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Oh, it's expected costs.
Like, figure out the compute requirements of your code, multiply by the cost per compute unit (or whatever): boom, your cost.
Totally predictable.
Compared to suddenly having to replace a $20k server that dies in your data center.
So much easier.Except when your code (let's be honest, the most likely thing to have an error in it... At least compared to some 4+ year old production hardware that everyone runs) has a bug in it that requires 20x compute.
But maybe that is a popularity spike (the hug-of-death)! That's why you migrated to the #cloud anyway, right? To handle these spikes! And you've always paid your bills so... Yeh, here's a 20x bill. -
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Someone left their NAT Gateway running..
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These horror stories make me afraid to even learn AWS with trials
Years ago, I played with AWS then contacted their support to make sure any AWS billing to my account was disabled.
I thought I'd try it again recently, and couldn't log in.
I still don't think I'm missing anything.I'd rather have VPS or server providers where I know exactly what I'm getting per month no matter what, tho I've ran near data transfer surcharges.
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Who told you that?
The Downloadable RAM Fairy
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Oh, it's expected costs.
Like, figure out the compute requirements of your code, multiply by the cost per compute unit (or whatever): boom, your cost.
Totally predictable.
Compared to suddenly having to replace a $20k server that dies in your data center.
So much easier.Except when your code (let's be honest, the most likely thing to have an error in it... At least compared to some 4+ year old production hardware that everyone runs) has a bug in it that requires 20x compute.
But maybe that is a popularity spike (the hug-of-death)! That's why you migrated to the #cloud anyway, right? To handle these spikes! And you've always paid your bills so... Yeh, here's a 20x bill.Good point. Maybe it depends on what I want to happen when that load spike comes.
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I'm very new to programming and somehow have a job where I have to write Python scripts. Someone on my team mentioned that we use AWS and now I'm scared. Can someone explain how you accidentally rack up such a bill?
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These horror stories make me afraid to even learn AWS with trials
First thing I learned in a video course was setting a spending budget for your account. I set a $10/month limit and never broke it in 6 years.
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I'm very new to programming and somehow have a job where I have to write Python scripts. Someone on my team mentioned that we use AWS and now I'm scared. Can someone explain how you accidentally rack up such a bill?
Just make sure whatever resources you spin up you're spitting down. This stuff though tends to happen when people accidentally let a a script that creates and destroys instances run over the weekend and it didn't appropriately clean up instances for you...
Or you thought you would try your hand at training in llm and then realized you spent way too much money on the infrastructure and resources
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I'm very new to programming and somehow have a job where I have to write Python scripts. Someone on my team mentioned that we use AWS and now I'm scared. Can someone explain how you accidentally rack up such a bill?
It's actually difficult. You can set a budget so AWS will alert you when you hit it.
They have a price calculator that'll calculate costs before you do anything.
Inbound Internet is free. Only outboard costs you anything.
Network transfers between VPC's using private links are free.
AWS accounts are free.
Lambda functions are ultra cheap as you only pay for the time you use it.
S3 is object storage with 11 9's of uptime and it's cheaper than any enterprise NAS.
Basically you'd have to setup something wrong and ignore it for weeks to incur a large bill.
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Who told you that?
The cloud computing salesmen
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Good point. Maybe it depends on what I want to happen when that load spike comes.
Saw that Grafana gets special notifications permissions on iOS for emergencies - expensive charges should wake up whoever’s on the hook for them
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The cloud computing salesmen
And all the senior management that believed their horseshit.
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I never have that problem with Digital Ocean
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That's why pay-as-you-go payment model is completely unfitting for the world of computers.
Prices can rack up dramatically without you noticing.
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Good point. Maybe it depends on what I want to happen when that load spike comes.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Maybe it depends on what I want to happen when that load spike comes.
I don't know what they wanted to happen, but at my old place the load spike overloaded the UPS units.
Me: "we really shouldn't be running these at
859095%."Brass: "That's not 100. Find room to ingest this company we bought when the CEO made a friend at a circlejerk."
Overnight server update check: blip
UPS: Bypass mode, bitches!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I'm very new to programming and somehow have a job where I have to write Python scripts. Someone on my team mentioned that we use AWS and now I'm scared. Can someone explain how you accidentally rack up such a bill?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]AWS has a multitude of different offerings with confusing pricing structures. They have zero incentive to make them understandable.
That said, chances are your new company has people who understand this already and know how to manage it. Hopefully, they'll put up some guardrails that prevent you and others from running up a big bill. I wouldn't expect a junior programmer to know how to do this, but that's ok as long as the company is managed right. Granted, that can be a big if sometimes.
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It's actually difficult. You can set a budget so AWS will alert you when you hit it.
They have a price calculator that'll calculate costs before you do anything.
Inbound Internet is free. Only outboard costs you anything.
Network transfers between VPC's using private links are free.
AWS accounts are free.
Lambda functions are ultra cheap as you only pay for the time you use it.
S3 is object storage with 11 9's of uptime and it's cheaper than any enterprise NAS.
Basically you'd have to setup something wrong and ignore it for weeks to incur a large bill.
Or leak your creds and let a crypto miner in. But your point still stands.
