I would say the main story here is that AWS overcharges on traffic to such a ridiculous degree. My SaaS regularly consumes 50+ TB in traffic, but I pay €150 in monthly fees for that.
For someone coming from my perspective, that would be a huge and unpleasant surprise to be billed $2600 for a service that I know costs $180 elsewhere.
Edit: especially so because people keep repeating the mantra that one should use the cloud to save money by not paying for what you don't use. Obviously, my 3 Xeon servers with 64 GB RAM each are way overpowered for sending out some GB of static files, but I wanted to have a bit of redundancy. But with my setup, there should be plenty of obvious inefficiencies for "the cloud" to eliminate
=> It feels like cloud should be cheaper than my dedicated servers. But it's not, and that is the unpleasant surprise.
For someone coming from my perspective, that would be a huge and unpleasant surprise to be billed $2600 for a service that I know costs $180 elsewhere.
Edit: especially so because people keep repeating the mantra that one should use the cloud to save money by not paying for what you don't use. Obviously, my 3 Xeon servers with 64 GB RAM each are way overpowered for sending out some GB of static files, but I wanted to have a bit of redundancy. But with my setup, there should be plenty of obvious inefficiencies for "the cloud" to eliminate
=> It feels like cloud should be cheaper than my dedicated servers. But it's not, and that is the unpleasant surprise.