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Netflix struggles to understand its cloud costs (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This just isn't true. AWS is very clear about pricing and provides pretty good tooling for analysis. Complex infrastructure will have complex costs though. AWS has its problems a'plenty, but unclear costs isn't one in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So Netflix built this tool just for fun then? Obviously they feel AWS' tools are lacking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I agree, works fine for my stuff, but I'm pretty heavy on vanilla ec2, RDS, ec.

I can see some people running some of the more complicated products and getting flustered. Some of the compound stuff where you're paying extra transaction costs on top of the serverless things