AWS is not about paying for what you use, it’s about paying for what you forgot to turn off.

@deadprogrammer Applies to @googlecloud too! 😄

@deadprogrammer that’s like any paid api?

@deadprogrammer 😂🤣😉

@deadprogrammer @trek Or what you're afraid to turn off in case it's doing something important you completely forgot about.

@deadprogrammer ... goes to turn off r5.4xlarge instance 🤦‍♂️ Thank you!

@deadprogrammer If you use cloudformation check out github.com/nib-health-fun… which deletes stacks that don't match certain tags

@deadprogrammer @ai_memes After you turn everything off, it's about paying for don't-know-what-the-heck-is-still-on

@deadprogrammer ALL the beginner tutorials should start with 1. create a resource group 2. add any service you touch/enable to the resource group to avoid being eternally indebted to @awscloud

@deadprogrammer This might help. Author is @MaratLevit. github.com/servian/aws-au…

@deadprogrammer 😄 we realized this too, and so we built lightwing.io

@deadprogrammer I know what you mean.

@deadprogrammer True, it's also about paying for what you turned off and was automatically reactivated by AWS a few days later. I wanted to pause an RDS database for a few weeks / months but it is turned on by AWS after 7 days of inactivity. I had to completely delete it 😑

@deadprogrammer Eternal Subscription aaS

@deadprogrammer Azure has far better mechanisms for handling scale-in. Could still improve, but resource-group-level cost management, alerting and DevOps functions are a boon to non-production experimentalists like myself.

@deadprogrammer Azure is even worse : use it once pay forever unless you disable pay as you go otherwise they will continue to charge you for something that doesn't even exist

@deadprogrammer That’s true of any cloud

@deadprogrammer I bet that's especially true for beginners 😆 . AWS courses/tutorials should have a special chapter to teach you how to hunt down these sources of debt.

@deadprogrammer Ever paid electricity or gas bill?

@deadprogrammer @codinghorror Agreed, there is no easy way to see ALL stuff u have running..... its kind of hell for developer who is learning AWS and cant understand why he is being charged $2.30 everymonth

@deadprogrammer @caitlynrosehorn hope this reminded you of our capstone

@deadprogrammer @NovusTiro Thanks for the reminder.

@deadprogrammer @dsamojlenko @Densify is purpose built to solve this problem for customers.

@deadprogrammer @realramkumar hi da

@deadprogrammer Another reason serverless is likely to be massively cheaper for most workloads.

@deadprogrammer @neutronsNeurons Sounds like the Blockbuster model Which means there's a Netflix model in there somewhere

@deadprogrammer @codinghorror docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbill…

@deadprogrammer Gold 👏🏻

@deadprogrammer @maciejwalkowiak

@deadprogrammer Lol 😂

@deadprogrammer Also Azure is like that! @Azure

@deadprogrammer @mvecinorosado

@deadprogrammer @BaniyeKeBol

@deadprogrammer Damn this is soo accurate. 😪

@deadprogrammer @nixcraft Oooh snap. Case in point, don't forget to add cleanup policies to your s3 buckets for incomplete multipart uploads.