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I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100

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461 points thunderbong | 5 comments | 14 Nov 24 06:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.424s | source
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davedx ◴[14 Nov 24 07:46 UTC] No.42133938[source]▶
This seems like a glaring bug in the scripts run by that `npx` command. The author is correct, the scripts should 100%:

- Choose the lowest cost resource (it's a tutorial!)

- Cleanup resources when the `delete` subscript is run

I don't think it's fair to expect developers to do paranoid sweeps of their entire AWS account looking for rogue resources after running something like this.

If a startup had this behavior would you shrug and say "this happens, you just have to be paranoid"? Why is AWS held to a different standard by some?

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reddalo ◴[14 Nov 24 08:11 UTC] No.42134081[source]▶
> do paranoid sweeps of their entire AWS account looking for rogue resources

That's the thing that annoys me the most about AWS. There's no easy way to find out all the resources I'm currently paying for (or if there's a way, I couldn't find it).

Without an easy to understand overview, it feels like I don't have full control of my own account.

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1. calgoo ◴[14 Nov 24 08:22 UTC] No.42134146[source]▶
You can set up daily or hourly cost and usage reports on the account. I built a finops function based on it, feeding the data into a Postgres db. Make sure to select incremental updates, if not you’ll en up paying for tb of s3 storage.
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2. dijit ◴[14 Nov 24 08:37 UTC] No.42134213[source]▶
I'd like to immortalise this comment because it's exactly the kind of thing that annoys me when people say "cloud is easier" or that it requires fewer skills/people/resources.

It clearly does, it's just different skills/time/energy requirements compared to colocation.

3. Aeolun ◴[14 Nov 24 08:43 UTC] No.42134242[source]▶
TB of S3 storage is surprisingly inexpensive though. Especially compared to everything else AWS.
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4. TheDong ◴[14 Nov 24 12:54 UTC] No.42135742[source]▶
"daily or hourly" isn't enough though.

There's some AWS resources, like for example route53 hosted zones, which bill only once at the end of the month, and so a daily or hourly bill won't tell you anything about leaked resources there.

There's at least a one resource that only bills once a year, so yet again you won't catch those with even monthly usage reports.

5. ac29 ◴[15 Nov 24 03:23 UTC] No.42143703[source]▶
$283/TB-year doesnt strike me as inexpensive. And that price does not include any data transfer.