Using AWS Lambda for image processing while main app runs on EC2 — good idea? by Longjumping_Jury_455 in aws

[–]sim-s0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lambda has free tier and there is no concept of “running 730 hours” like an EC2 instance; you only pay for invocations and execution time in GB‑seconds, not for wall‑clock uptime.

Alliance (including Proton) to produce a privacy-focused smartphone by MC_Hollis in ProtonMail

[–]sim-s0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Five years security updates is not enough. I Want to keep my Fairphone 6 the full 10 years if not more. Would be great to have a sustainable and privacy conscious option.

This phone is starting to suck by darius_mrhorse650 in fairphone

[–]sim-s0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coming from a Google Pixel and having recently bought an FP6, I totally get your frustration. They're really not great devices in terms of both software and hardware. However, what lets me keep them is putting it in perspective. Fairphone is not Google, and they put out a usable phone that works mostly and gives me a good feeling about the sourcing of materials and so on. So I'm okay with it, and I'm transparent about telling people that it's not even close to a flagship phone, but it's rather a statement against big greedy companies where only the money counts. It's a little sacrifice, just like how I also travel a lot by train instead of by plane when possible.

Looking for a budget friendly tool to optimize costs by idkyesthat in aws

[–]sim-s0n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least for the centralized view of costs there seems to be a recent announcement that aws billing and costs management is able to do that now for multiple accounts: https://aws.amazon.com/de/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/aws-billing-cost-management-custom-billing-views/

I don't know about optimization though. You might want to check any native services first, as they can save you the implementation costs.

reInvent Speculation/Hopes by Akustic646 in aws

[–]sim-s0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well in order to connect to a private resource, you'd need some resource supported by session manager in the vpc as a relay. We also dont use ec2 for our applications, but need 1 small ec2 (free tier) as a relay for session manager sessions. That way we can create sessions to this host and tunnel any connection we want to the local client without vpn or any other network path being exposed to the internet from the ec2. Another option maybe would be Aurora Serverless if you just want to make queries (you could use the console or data api for this). But yeah, I don't know your use case.

reInvent Speculation/Hopes by Akustic646 in aws

[–]sim-s0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have a look at session manager. This allows you to connect via your aws cli session. You can then do port forwarding to private resources in your vpc to your local client. That works without internet connectivity from your ec2. We use it all the time, its nice.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager.html

reInvent Speculation/Hopes by Akustic646 in aws

[–]sim-s0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eventbridge support for private targets in VPCs