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Are we entirely discounting the free tier that's provided?
by CoughlinJ 2y ago
Are we entirely discounting the free tier that's provided?
- xyzzy123 2y agoMy understanding is that free tier is awesome but if you have (for example) a massive traffic spike there's no real way to avoid paying for all the egress unless you go cap in hand to AWS support (who, to be fair, are usually pretty reasonable). There are some mitigating things you can do, set limits on various resources and billing / budgeting alerts but fundamentally I don't think there's an easy way to avoid being on the hook for unexpected costs. Theoretically you could have lambdas that react to billing alerts and shut things down but I've never seen anyone set that up.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoSeeing as the free tier only lasts for a year, it seems fair to discount it. If it was free in perpetuity (below some use threshold) that'd be one thing, but it isn't.
- kassner 2y agoThere are some resources that have an always-free tier, like DynamoDB, SNS, Lambdas, etc. Check out https://aws.amazon.com/free/ https://aws.amazon.com/free/ You’ll still need a Credit Card on file for overages.