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Discussion on: What software development tools (libraries/frameworks/apps/whatever) make you feel most anxious while you're working with them?

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leob • Edited

AWS pricing is notoriously complicated and opaque.

I did a price calculation recently, comparing what it would cost to host something on AWS versus Linode, and I was pretty shocked to find that data transfer out was approximately 9 times more expensive per Gigabyte compared to Linode (I'm not affiliated to Linode in any way, although I've been a happy user for a couple of years).

But this is nothing new, I believe that billing being notoriously complex and nontransparent (and expensive compared to competitors) is a known thing with AWS.