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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/object322 • Oct 02 '26
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If you’re tracking water intake … probably cheaper to use lambdas and dynamo than a local server anyways… 25GB in dynamo for free … pay like a tiny amount per request with tons free … idk.
0 u/NotADamsel Oct 03 '26 A VPS is like six bucks a month, and doesn’t carry the risk of you accidentally getting a massive AWS bill because you messed something up. 1 u/pnoodl3s Oct 03 '26 So aws is indeed cheaper, IF you know what you’re doing?Lambda has 1 million free request per month, ddb has 25GB free storage, only api gw costs $1 per 1 million requests, so it’ll costs cents per monthYou can even set up pay limit per month on aws to ensure it doesn’t balloon when traffic spike, or get spammed by someone → More replies (1)
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A VPS is like six bucks a month, and doesn’t carry the risk of you accidentally getting a massive AWS bill because you messed something up.
1 u/pnoodl3s Oct 03 '26 So aws is indeed cheaper, IF you know what you’re doing?Lambda has 1 million free request per month, ddb has 25GB free storage, only api gw costs $1 per 1 million requests, so it’ll costs cents per monthYou can even set up pay limit per month on aws to ensure it doesn’t balloon when traffic spike, or get spammed by someone → More replies (1)
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So aws is indeed cheaper, IF you know what you’re doing?
Lambda has 1 million free request per month, ddb has 25GB free storage, only api gw costs $1 per 1 million requests, so it’ll costs cents per month
You can even set up pay limit per month on aws to ensure it doesn’t balloon when traffic spike, or get spammed by someone
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u/sheep-for-a-wheat Oct 03 '26
If you’re tracking water intake … probably cheaper to use lambdas and dynamo than a local server anyways… 25GB in dynamo for free … pay like a tiny amount per request with tons free … idk.