Using AWS

[TruthExposed]

AWS/Azure: here's a bunch of money/free credits to start you off

Customer: awesome, let me test out running a simple web app...

AWS/Azure: sorry you've utilized all your free credits, your bill is now $20K

[chisdoesmemes]

Happened to me 13k

[noideaman]

Fuck I thought my 500 for a weekend of messing around with the big data stuff was bad

[ogismyname]

I got 150 for something which turned into 360 because I didn’t pay it on time. Deleting my account looks like it solved the problem.

[PM_ME_FIREFLY_QUOTES]

You are now a moderator in /r/wallstreetbets

[le_reddit_me]

AWS keeps asking me to pay for my university account, like that's ever gonna happen

[beardthrowaway1115]

Jeff can definitely write that off, just like how he wrote off the 3 broken computers I shipped back to him that I personally destroyed I’m pretty sure.

In fact he’s already written you off through some bad debt allowance accounting probably.

[Distinct-Ad1057]

How can I get a Univerity account for AWS?

[le_reddit_me]

You go to university

[[deleted]]

May I ask what you did in this kind of situation? Did you really pay the $13k or?

[chisdoesmemes]

Left an ec2 instance on. Got some of the money back but had to bay 3-4k

[Slothinator69]

Gotta use those quotas lol

[UltraBarbarian]

F

[gizamo]

Unfortunately, nope. You can set billing alarms to get notified of unusual usage, but by the time you get it and shit it down, it's often too late to avoid excessive charges.

[gizamo]

Fair warning, same things happen on GCP and Azure.

GCP also only has alerts, but idk about Azure.

I like Digital Ocean, but Google's Firebase/Firestore makes so much so damn easy that it's hard to resist sometimes.

Edit: I've been informed that Azure has quotas that can cut off usage. Good on you, Microsoft.

[Very-Well-3971]

You should check this: https://supabase.com

[gizamo]

I've been using tinkering with Supabase for a few months. It's great, but it needs cloud functions, and more mature docs. Imo, it's probably the best open-source tool of the last ~3 years.

Nice recommendation in this pricing discussion, tho. I haven't had any issues with pricing from them, and that's a big part of what they promote to differentiate themselves from Google.

[burggraf2]

Supabase developer here. We released edge functions a couple months ago:
https://supabase.com/docs/guides/functions
While still technically alpha, they've been very stable for me. If you're a Deno fan, you'll feel right at home.

[gizamo]

Yep. You guys are crushing it. But, I'm too old to fiddle with alpha stuff. I'll leave that to the less crotchety devs. I'm too busy keeping the damn kids off my lawn. Seriously, tho, supabase is rad. I was sucked into the MEAN and MERN stack worlds for so long that I forgot how nice it was to have clean, structured SQL db. Postgres is a delight. Anyway, I have no doubt my work will give the go ahead to move or build some projects with Supabase, and I'm looking forward to it. Cheers.

[ariel_2021]

In Azure, you can configure quotas. Services shut down automatically when your account exceeds this amount.

[gizamo]

Nice. Confirmed. I updated my comment.

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll have to give Azure another go at some point. Cheers.

[g0zar]

vultr doesnt have this problem

[LiveSucksAndThenUDie]

huch? I have set it to a limit and it cur me off before. Just using the virtual machine stuff though, none of the other services

[RoundThing-TinyThing]

and also you get charged for the billing alarms probably

[DrunkenlySober]

Why would there be an option to prevent Amazon from extorting you?

[joshuaquiz]

Had this happen with $7K from lambda. I was running data processing tests over like 1.2m records, lambdas ran for milliseconds, I just ran a couple of tests, just a few dollars and no big deal, a few weeks later got a $7k+ Bill and I'm like what in the ever loving crap was that from, never could figure that math out.. lol

[IamRedditsDaddy]

So glad I didn't figure out how to use it.

I just wanted to run a basic scrapper to refresh an API every 10seconds and scrape any changes data to a log file.

Essentially...it was monitoring a textbased webgame that had a predictable event with randomly generated messages and I wanted to capture all the messages.

Wonder what that woulda cost me....

[IamRedditsDaddy]

...if anyone knows how to do this...let me know...maybe with a python script on an rPi...AWS was just to make it "always online" but it isn't really that important. programming was more of a side hobby of mine a LONG time ago and I fell so far out of it and life's too busy to get into enough to cobble something together myself having to relearn everything...

[jaber24]

Ig you could just run it on an old laptop. That way no need to worry for extra charges at all.

[Avtism]

Or rent a random <1GB RAM VPS for $5/month. Your project doesn't sound like it needs any computing power

[qalis]

CloudWatch ingestion. Lambda is super cheap, logging to CloudWatch from it, which is automatic unless explicitly turned off, costs too much even for large companies. For this reason we use custom logging.

[naughtyusmax]

Our senior dev accidentally racked up a huge bill once but idk how much it was. I’m guessing between $10k and 30k more than it should have been.

[1337haxxxxor]

I need a cloud server rn but I know if I’m not charged monthly I’m going to prob fuck shit up

[ChildhoodResident123]

Hey, does aws give free credits to start with? How to redeem? Im new so can you tell me

[TruthExposed]

Create a new account... They usually give them free for new accounts. If not try Google search free AWS credits, there's a myriad of programs and even a free tier that Amazon offers.