I’m starting to see this as a feature. AWS makes you pay per-request for a lot of things, but in my mind it makes those services sustainable.
Maybe I’ve just been bitten by the promise of “free” or really cheap services either imploding or suddenly changing their billing model over the years.
- domains are relatively expensive ($13 vs $9.15 on CloudFlare for a .com, others even more expensive)
- you have to pay DNS on top of that
- you have to deal with AWS