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by joshstrange 2766 days ago
If I'm understanding this right I run a VM (or let this process have access to my host) and then I can spin up AWS services on my local host? So I can have a development SQS queue that is run locally and then when I move to the cloud I can just change the config to point to the cloud version? And this is...? Free? I can't see anything about pricing.

If this is true this is amazing as it lets you prototype with AWS services for the cost of hardware.
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wmf 2766 days ago
No, this is more like a rack that you buy from AWS at AWS pricing. I see people using AWS Public for development and "air gapped" [1] AWS Outposts for production.

[1] not really

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joshstrange 2766 days ago
Ahh ok, thank you for clarify. This makes more sense even if it makes me a little sad. I'd love to use AWS for side/hobby stuff and then use the cloud-version once I was ready to launch something. I just can't justify paying $7 minimum a month for a VM when I have 2 cloud servers and 3 home servers already that are all more powerful.

I hate that for AWS you have to either pay to develop or use hacky semi-equivalents locally and hope it works when you go to the cloud.

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atonse 2766 days ago
They have a free tier for exactly this purpose. Almost all the services have pretty reasonable free tiers.
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joshstrange 2766 days ago
But AWS (maybe others as well) only lasts for 1 year and lambda and stuff might have higher free tiers but stuff like EC2 barely covers a T1 micro IIRC.
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insomniacity 2766 days ago
You can sign up new accounts, even on the same credit card. Additionally I believe that if you contact support and agree for them to wipe all the resources in your account - you can have another year of free tier again.

And of course, you're deploying all your stuff automatically anyway right? So wiping the account doesn't really matter.

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