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brightballlast Thursday at 4:37 PM1 replyview on HN

I've been explaining that to people for a bit now as well as a strong caution for how people are pricing tools. It's all going to go up once dependency is established.

The AWS price increase on 1/5 for GPU's on EC2 was a good example.


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renegade-otterlast Thursday at 4:47 PM

AWS in general is a good example. It used to be much more affordable and better than boutique hosting. Now AWS costs can easily spiral out of control. Somehow I can run a site for $20 on Digital Ocean, but with AWS it always ends up $120.

RDS is a particular racket that will cost you hundreds of dollars for a rock bottom tier. Again, Digital Ocean is below $20 per month that will serve many a small business. And yet, AWS is the default goto at this point because the lockin is real.

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