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S3 egress and inter-AZ traffic. The way they advertise multi-AZ should honestly be illegal, or at least include warnings about charges.

Like when you set up an RDS instance, the “prod” template defaults to multi-AZ (a good idea tbf), but completely elides the fact that if your app is in a different AZ, you’re going to start racking up $0.02/GB.

Same with NLBs and cross-AZ routing. Sure, it can be helpful, but yeesh.

Or EKS, since Topology Aware Routing is in no way a default.




Or NAT prices... there's a good reason why there's FCK-nat. Those nat prices are terrible




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