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"Did you accidentally leave an unused function running? Too bad."
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Experienced at running my own server: 50€/month power bill
It's okay I guess
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This is how I feel about vibe coding
“Claude can you help me with this”
“Sure, taking a look”
you’ve exceeded your allotted token limit
Oops.
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"Did you accidentally leave an unused function running? Too bad."
I enabled Cloudtrail to log all DynamoDB read/write data events when trying to troubleshoot an issue. Even though I only left this enabled for a few days, the Cloudtrail line item was $5k more than it should have been. My back of the napkin math with assumptions came out to be 100 times less than that, so I had a really awkward support email asking them to reverse the charges, which they did fortunately.
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Experienced at running my own server: 50€/month power bill
It's okay I guess
Wow that's.... Pricey. What is your kWh cost?
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Wow that's.... Pricey. What is your kWh cost?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]~0.28€/kWh
So 50€/month assumes an average of 263W used 24/7, though considering I also have two switches and a workstation/backup server as well as the inefficiency of an UPS, that is realistic.
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These horror stories make me afraid to even learn AWS with trials
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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.
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~0.28€/kWh
So 50€/month assumes an average of 263W used 24/7, though considering I also have two switches and a workstation/backup server as well as the inefficiency of an UPS, that is realistic.
Yeah sounds about right. But we have really cheap power, something like 7 or 8 cents per kwh (US). Not sure why, lots of wind I guess.
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Yeah sounds about right. But we have really cheap power, something like 7 or 8 cents per kwh (US). Not sure why, lots of wind I guess.
The term you’re looking for is government-subsidized fossil fuels.
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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
