[peppermint_tea]

I spun a c3.large for the cause and email the person.

any gotchas I should worry about? (the aws calculator gives me 76.65$ USD / month)

I want to help but I am by no mean rich... don't want a crazy AWS bill...

[M4v3R]

I’m by no means an expert, but one thing I would keep an eye on is the egress data metric, because Amazon charges for that. If there’s a lot of traffic you might be billed more.

[peppermint_tea]

thanks... I revised the simulator, and indeed, I could have racked a serious bill 1-4k

[system2]

Wouldn't something like DigitalOcean or Linode help? They are far more cheaper and you don't get weird random invoices from them.

[peppermint_tea]

just spun 2 cx21 servers with hetzner (20TB bandwidth + 1€ per extra TB)

thanks!

[peppermint_tea]

yes, I will change provider... paying for egress data on something that is meant for outbound connections is a bad idea...