AWS, Data Transfer Costs, and Options
I’ve written about Data Transfer Costs in the past , and how they’re probably the premier source of unpleasant surprises when the AWS bill shows up. There are many many sources for these, but, in my experience, the vast majority of them come down to • Traffic to public IPs, and forgetting that any traffic to them, even from your own instances, counts • Static assets on EC2 which you haven’t moved to Cloudflare. Especially when you’ve got videos (ouch!) • Multi-AZ deployments, and in particular, multi-AZ RDS, where every damn write involves data-transfer costs. So fine, you know the above, what’re you going to do about it? You could stay on top of it with Cloudability or CloudCheckr or some such, but this really requires you to seriously stay on top of it. And the issue with this i s that relying on always doing the right thing to keep your costs down will end up ‘sploding in your face , and pr...