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bulletsvshumanstoday at 1:51 PM1 replyview on HN

They absolutely could calculate and put the price in the UI if they wished to. Other cloud vendors do.


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mlhpdxtoday at 4:10 PM

For which services?

Let’s look at Lambda for a second. Deploying a lambda function to AWS costs literally nothing. And yet, depending on how it’s used, it can cost an infinite amount of money. Which price should it show?

There are far more sevices like Lambda than EC2.