Comment by nathants

aws can be so cheap. aside from egress bandwidth, it’s pricing is fantastic.

crazy aws cost is always gonna be a case of your holding it wrong. either intentionally because it’s more fun, or accidentally.

how to use aws well and cheaply:

- scale to zero whenever possible (lambda)

- use minimal infrastructure (lambda managing ec2 with route53 health check)

- don’t use rds (s3+dynamo ideally, sql on i4i nvme if you must)

- automate everything, and use the automation constantly.

- egress heavy components get pushed out to cloudflare. r2 is in public beta!