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You do realize this is AWS policy, right? I mean you cannot run away from AWS costs ... on AWS. They are targeting dollar amounts of profits for themselves, not charging cost+20% for service X. They will find some other way to charge you the yet more than you're saving here, because MBA culture.

And AWS is like 10x more expensive than dedicated hosting, minimum. Not 10%, 1000%. To the point that for the price of

I mean if cost matters to you you need to move out of the cloud. Plenty of Kubernetes hosting these days, and very easy to set it up yourself.



This. You then work to dig deeper into the vendor lock-in, to move your apps to use apparently cheaper AWS-only services, and if you're wily (or oblivious) you can report this as cost savings.




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