On: The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO

[joncrane]

I've found it relatively easy to price out AWS projects, especially using their Cost Calculator: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

Between that and https://ec2instances.info/, I can figure out the vast majority of what I need to know about costs on AWS.

What are the gaps that you see?

[toomuchtodo → joncrane]

Tell me what your ALB costs are going to be next month.

“You are charged for each hour or partial hour that an Application Load Balancer is running and the number of Load Balancer Capacity Units (LCU) used per hour.”

Go here and see how “LCUs” are computed: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing/

[sushisource → joncrane]

If they were genuinely interested in making it easy you'd see pricing information every time you're spinning up a new EC2 instance / whatever other service, right there, without needing to go pull up the cost calculator. Have an instant "estimate my current bill" button, etc, etc.

[arbie → sushisource]

To be fair, Azure is no less opaque.

[nemothekid → joncrane]

If you spin up almost anything on GCP, you can see the monthly cost right there, with all the options you have selected.

A rather obvious gap is this one - How much will an i3.xlarge with an extra 2TiB of storage cost you per month on AWS?