[transcriptase]

The fact that there's an entire consulting industry around helping people figure out very basic pricing for very basic tasks on AWS should be a wake-up call that their documentation and calculators are awful.

Then again I'm sure there's no incentive to improve it, since if for whatever reason you were laid off from AWS... you could have a lucrative consulting gig the next day helping people with the blindingly obvious consumer pain points you refused to resolve.

[nefitty]

Reminds me of this thread:

> "Yeah you won’t figure those APIs out from the documentation. It was on purpose. You have to go buy the book."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953592

[wongarsu]

I'm pretty sure one of the major reasons AWS is useful to large companies is that it removes prices and billing as far as possible from the place where you actually create resources. This enables people to just do stuff without the usual red tape involved in buying something.

If you want to see pieces as you do stuff you can go to the Google Cloud