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  • tourist@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I’ve been on an AWS project for about a month now

    And, my god, there is so much to be infuriated by.

    My first revelation was that there is no payment killswitch. E.g. if I spend more than X dollars, stop all my services and don’t charge me anymore. Nope sorry can’t do that

    You can set “Budget alerts” but holy fuck, the emails do not arrive anywhere near reasonably on time

    $0.40 per secret stored, billed monthly. Imagine the keys for every lock in your apartment showing up as charges on your rent invoice.

    With every managed service, it feels like the setup menus are just a game of minesweeper, where if you don’t know any better, you might accidentally cost your organization $500 per hour and not know until the next day when the cost dashboard updates.

    Maybe it’s just because I’m new to it, but apparently, this kind of shit is rampant among most cloud providers.

    Biggest companies in the world still need to pickpocket their customers and that’s somehow okay

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Before the cloud it was so hard to get a budget for anything, even necessary yearly upgrades. Sometimes I would have to scrap the least important server when a component in a more important one did. Then the cloud came along and so, suddenly we had so much money to spend! But now it was so hard to track who spent it, what projects it was spent on, and how we could dial it down. SMH. Cloud computing can be so ridiculous.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      it feels like the setup menus are just a game of minesweeper

      …and that turns it into a skills game vs a bad gamble.

      And people who don’t wanna hire pros to manage their on-prem think they can maybe, just maybe, win that skill game.

      And that’s how casinos that don’t oaunfee their games of chance through clowd sign-ups also leverage dunning-kruger for profit.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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      7 hours ago

      Biggest companies in the world still need to pickpocket their customers and that’s somehow okay

      While small to medium hosters are usually okay.

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        5 hours ago

        I didn’t mean to imply that smaller companies should have free reign oops

        Or are you saying that those hosters are generally less predatory?

        I’m shit at language, I’m shit at my job, I legit don’t know

    • EvenOdds@lemmy.zip
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      18 hours ago

      Agreed, AWS make pricing deliberately difficult to control.

      Check out budget actions, you can set that to stop EC2s on certain thresholds. Not perfects but can help. Also if you can use parameter store instead of secrets manager, you can save a bunch of money there too.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      17 hours ago

      I only decided to set up a personal AWS for some minor things after having worked on it at employers for many years, after watching employers accidentally spend $3000 a day or $1 million a month or $35,000 in error. Cloud is the devil, bring back servers. One flat piece of hardware you can do whatever with…but even that’s not sacred. If you use hosted servers, the hosts often still charge for ingress/egress and other things now, so you still fall into traps if not careful. Simpler though.

      So I guess, storing your own server in your office is the way to go, but then the ISP issues…

      Let us all just go back to paper, actually.

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    21 hours ago

    Check to see how it’s handling that 2 weeks maybe you can change it to 2000000 weeks

  • toe@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Sorry, it’ll be back to the regular “Remind me later” when our UX person gets back from leave. The engineer who was made to do this last minute has been sacked and replaced by three TPMs and a mop. The mop is the star performer so far.