One of the many problems with AWS free tier is the obfuscation of expenditure by design. This is NOT OK.

Sure Amazon, 0.02$/GB * 0.000120 GB = 0.01$, not 0.0000024$, sure, that's right.

0.05$ for what amounts to less than 2MB of data transfer in total (there's two more lines like that in the bill).
Eat a bag of dicks.

Free tier my ass, if I wanted to spend money I'd rather use Azure.

AWS Free Tier

So I thought I was still on AWS' trial period. Turns out I'm not anymore and I just paid $50 for last month and still have $40 to pay at the end of this month. FUCK. I used it for my internship but I can't ask them to pay me that money back because it was my fault not knowing that I wasn't on the trial period anymore. Also, that's more than half my monthly income, what a shit currency my country has. I could've bought a new 60% keyboard I was after with that money ;-;

I did something potentially extremely stupid today

In 2020 when I was a teenager I suggested my uncle who ran a family business with my father to start a e commerce website. I did lot of stupid stuff doing this too. Planned to use AWS free tier to host the website and used Godaddy for domains IIRC. Setup godaddy email forwarding to his gmail account too IIRC

I registered a AWS account with my email(bad idea since my uncle's debit card was the payment method). I then setup a EC2 instance but instead of using the free instance I used some other instance because I didn't read what instance was free and setup his debit card as the payment method.

Setup woocommerce on it and pointed the domain to instance's static IP. We didn't do a lot of stuff on the website but next month on AWS we got a bill but it was a small amount. Uncle paid the bill and I terminated the EC2 instance IIRC. Next month there was a very small bill I don't remember what I did after it.

Today I remembered about it logged in to AWS and paid the bill. The problem is I used the default billing address which is in my uncle's name and the address of the family business. IIRC we didn't give them tax details of the business so we can't claim tax credit on it.

But still since there is a bill with the address of the business which Amazon probably reported to the government there could be tax discrepancies. Bill was due 4 years ago so maybe it will affect his 2020 returns which could be painful. The bill was also paid by me not from my Uncle's account so that might complicate things.

Thankfully the surprise AWS bill had basically zero affect on my relationship with my uncle.

I am so fucking frustrated about aws. Ive been following a course that covers aws and deployment using EBS EC2 ECS. I use a 12 months FREE Tier plan. I go to my billing and i see i got charged. What the FUCK? Is this not a fucking scam by AWS???? You tell me i can use your services for free and then without warning or confirmation im getting billed??? FOR WHAT???? Is there a way to cancel getting billed?

Just to learn aws building a side project that isnt even in production i have to fucking spend money even in a free tier

Because the components i Really need and cant move forward without them are paid

The purpose of AWS free tier is to trick people into attempting to stay within its completely unmarked limits. It's like trying to hunt for mushrrooms in a forest split with a hostile country based on a verbal definition of where the border lies with border control waiting to ambush tourists for ransom money.

I had to recreate my Revolut account this christmas, and now I created a Wise account too. Two more years of AWS free tier and GCP demo credits.

Don't trust AWS free tier

Suggestions for alternatives?

saddens me how i have to keep a billing tab open whenever i work with aws so i can refresh the page to keep track if im getting billed on my 12 MONTHS FREE TIER account or not. so draining. so exhausting. so scammish. so manipulative. get fucked aws

I'd really love to try my hands on some of these devOps tools, it's a very interesting part of development that has always caught my attention

currently planning on trying out AWS free tier

so many stuffs I really want to learn

one after the other, it's just been a year, a lot more to go

without exception - everyone I know who writes code and thinks ChatGPT is overhyped - thinks 3.5 is what ChatGPT is.

literally like concluding “aws is overhyped” bc free tier sucks.

I now know why Google Clouds sucks compared to AWS, and Azure.

1. No free tier
2. Pricing is confusing and designed for comp scis
3. Too componentized.

I wanted to translate text in an image like Google Translate/Lens.

Google: after a long search of the site's developer docs, I need the Translate and Vision APIs which have separate pricing specified in hours and task type

Microsoft: search Translate API,
Does images, first 5 million characters are free

Please give me code snippet to create windows ec2 instance using boto3 within aws free tier limit.

import boto3

# Create an AWS session and EC2 client
aws_management_console = boto3.session.Session(profile_name='....')
ec2_console = aws_management_console.client(service_name='ec2')

def create_ec2_instance():
try:
print("Creating EC2 instance")
ec2_console.run_instances(
ImageId="....",
MinCount=1,
MaxCount=1,
InstanceType="t3.micro",
KeyName="...",

SecurityGroupIds=['...1'] # Specify your security group ID(s) as a list
)
except Exception as e:
print(e)

# Call the function to create the EC2 instance
create_ec2_instance()
Have i missed anything in this code?
It's running fine not creating any instance.

AWS free tier. Need someone who can help me with my project ?
Just basic doubts...

Need tutorials for aws documentDB to use under free tier

Ok so, i have no idea where i can ask this kinda thing so i'm asking it here (i know i could do like stackexchange or dead aws discord servers, ... nvm you know why i'm not going that route).

Anyways,
I'm looking for a comparison between a mongo+node setup on a basic t1.micro instance and a lambda+dynamodb setup.

Each one has it's perks obviously but i guess i sorta prefer whichever one gives best performance on the free tier.

I do know dynamo has 25 reads and 25 writes a second on the free tier, which might be a little less ? I really have no clue.

But how many writes/reads would a basic mongo setup be able to achieve on the t1.micro instance ? Any idea? Do share your experiences with these architectures as well. I'm sort of a newb with serverless, the downsides aren't worth it for me but I'm learning it nevertheless. It sorta tickles some sort of self-torture curiosity fetish (need more self-research to back that).