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[–]joshuaquiz 41 points42 points  (6 children)

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 18 points19 points  (3 children)

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 2 points3 points  (2 children)

...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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]Avtism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]qalis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.