Tag: pricing
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What is the size of your RDS backups and snapshots?
According to the Amazon documentation, many users never pay for automated backups and DB Snapshots There is no additional charge for backup storage, up to 100% of your total database storage for a region. (Based upon our experience as database administrators, the vast majority of databases require less raw storage for a backup than for…
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Base performance and EC2 T2 instances
Almost three years ago AWS launched the now very popular T2 instances, EC2 servers with burstable performance. As Jeff Barr wrote in 2014: Even though the speedometer in my car maxes out at 150 MPH, I rarely drive at that speed (and the top end may be more optimistic than realistic), but it is certainly…
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S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage is (almost) dead
As a software developer and architect I have spent countless hours discussing the benefits, the costs and the challenges of deprecating an API or a service in a product. AWS has the opportunity and the business model to skip the entire discussion and simply use the pricing element to make a service useless. Let’s take…