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I don't want to armchair ops your decisions, but maybe do consider moving to some dedicated Hetzner servers, at least for the runners. You can probably reduce that cost tenfold relatively simply.


Move everything to Hetzner (or the like) at double the capacity that AWS has on average and you still spend about 10% of what you spend on AWS.

That is how stupid costly AWS is and 99% of people using AWS are wasting money like there is now tomorrow.


Problem is Hetzner has such stringent user verification its tough to get hosting on there.

You don't even need to use Hetzner, I'm actually quite surprised they are spending 2k on DB. For the env isolation i understand they need ec2 but...

it shouldn't cost anywhere that amount, for instance I have 3 million users on a $40/month digital ocean VPS with just Django + Postgres and I have far more reads and writes.

for env isolation you could spin up a $5/month VPS and shut it down when idle


Sure Hetzner ist just one example. Many provides sell at about 5 to 10% of AWS prices.


Eh? It's not "tough" to get hosting there... It's super easy if you use legit details and live in a country they are allowed to do business with.


> 99% of people using AWS are wasting money like there is now tomorrow

Why do you think that is? Are that many people that dumb or are there other reasons they use managed cloud?


AWS will charge for network traffic, both in and out. Would need to calculate what is cheaper.


The runners take some code and return text, right? That shouldn't be too much traffic, hopefully.




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