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[โ€“] Oderus@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's actually difficult. You can set a budget so AWS will alert you when you hit it.

They have a price calculator that'll calculate costs before you do anything.

Inbound Internet is free. Only outboard costs you anything.

Network transfers between VPC's using private links are free.

AWS accounts are free.

Lambda functions are ultra cheap as you only pay for the time you use it.

S3 is object storage with 11 9's of uptime and it's cheaper than any enterprise NAS.

Basically you'd have to setup something wrong and ignore it for weeks to incur a large bill.

[โ€“] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Or leak your creds and let a crypto miner in. But your point still stands.