• McLoud@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    I saw this on all, and I don’t get the joke. Any programmers care to explain in lay terms?

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      EC2 are cloud based virtual machines, very easy to spin one up exactly as you need it to run whatever.

      But they’re billed hourly and they get very expensive very very fast especially when you leave it on (the hourly billing is for a machine that’s on and running) and have shit tons of resources on it. You can have multiple terabyte RAM machines at the click of a button

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          7 hours ago

          The other thing they forgot to mention is that getting Amazon to actually tell you what anything will cost, or a breakdown of what your bill is, is like pulling teeth.

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            Oh good to know, I’m more of a GCP guy myself and it’s billing tool isn’t too shabby IMO lolol

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              Amazon’s billing tool is the most useless thing I’ve ever seen lol. it’s like “$XYZ of your bill was server compute!” like, there’s 40 ec2s, elastic beanstalk instances, fargate, kubernetes, like what the fuck is ‘server compute’ and what’s the breakdown of the actual individual parts?

              It’s not even unhelpful, it’s literally worse than useless lmao

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                You can get a full itemized bill. The only thing that isn’t fully broken out are elastic ips. We found that out because we were tagging everything for billing and those weren’t showing up correctly.

                Mind you, it’s likely a bit more itemized than you want. Like you’ll see a separate line item for each price tier you paid for something, and things like ebs disks are all split out. It can be a bit…much.

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                  I mean, that’s kind of my point though. You either get worse than useless, over detailed to the point of useless, or you have to spend weeks pulling hacky crap with tags to try to jury-rig your own useful billing system out of their clusterfuck.

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        10 hours ago

        Oh is that why RAM is expensive AF anymore? Post quantum serverless demand for TB of RAMDisk?

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      10 hours ago

      You can rent cloud machines from Amazon, they can get pretty expensive if you forget about them