One thing I hate about AWS billing is that it doesn't separate out disk costs from the VM compute.
Doesn't it? EBS stuff (storage and IOPS) being a separate line item last I checked. Ephemeral storage (if applicable) is included with the compute price.
Also, is it just me or is RDS ridiculously expensive? I'm fairly new to AWS, having mostly used (and continue to use) Azure.
I seem to remember it being around what an EC2 instance cost until you go to multi-AZ and then you're paying for an extra instance. But I've only used RDS with postgres and mysql type engines, none of the proprietary stuff that would add on extra licensing fees.
It may in the actual invoice, but in the dashboard it's difficult to narrow down what it actually costs when you're doing maintenance. A lot of things are just listed as EC2 (other). I can't tell what I'm saving by getting rid of a disk. In this way Azure is more friendly, at least in my experience.
Nope, the RDS instances cost quite a bit more. For example, in us-east-1, an unreserved t3.micro costs $91.104000 a year but a Postgres t3.micro costs $157.680000 a year. That particular RDS instance does not include any storage, you pay as you go with EBS.
For the m4 series, RDS is almost double the instance cost.
Yeah, RDS is pretty expensive but unlike raw compute you do get guaranteed performance.
The issue with AWS is that it's easy to add new services without finding new vendors so companies just spend more and more on AWS as features are not as important as 'cost savings'.
Doesn't it? EBS stuff (storage and IOPS) being a separate line item last I checked. Ephemeral storage (if applicable) is included with the compute price.
Also, is it just me or is RDS ridiculously expensive? I'm fairly new to AWS, having mostly used (and continue to use) Azure.
I seem to remember it being around what an EC2 instance cost until you go to multi-AZ and then you're paying for an extra instance. But I've only used RDS with postgres and mysql type engines, none of the proprietary stuff that would add on extra licensing fees.