[ghoomketu]

I really love all the cool features AWS keeps adding to their offerings but god does the bill adds up so quickly.

I just realised that I was paying almost $100 a month for things I'm now getting for almost free by just choosing alternative providers like Digitalocean, Cloudflare, etc.

- For example AWS charges 50 cents per DNS zone. I have had a lot of domains in route 53 (it was part of a setup script) which added almost $25 to my bill each month. I moved all my domain to DO and it's $0 now

- Then even with S3 things start to add up quickly. Cost associated with data storage and bandwidth is insane compared to spaces which is $5 flat and I've never exceed what comes in it.

- Most expensive were the EBS snapshots or something. I have been AWS for god knows how long and there were just too many snapshots (AMIs) that were there. Don't think you can download/upload then but they started adding quite on my bill.

- Load balancer also adds like $2 or $5 or something per instance if I remember correctly. Not sure what it is now.

Anyway point being if you are a solo dev and you're not too careful about costs (read lazy), AWS bill can be a good chunk of change per month .