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How cheap is cheap?

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Last month I wrote a new post, namely: Building a simple, resilient, cheap network service with AWS. Now that AWS’ billing cycle for November is complete we can ask ourselves how cheap was that “cheap” in the article, and give an answer. The cost is not exact to the cent, due to the presence of a a stopped instance I am keeping around, but will still be good enough.

To summarise, the article described how to set up a service on spot instances, thus saving on the EC2 cost. We want to understand if we really saved money, and if there are opportunities to save even more. If you haven’t read the previous post, it’s probably a good time to do it now. If you did, let’s go and check the bill.

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Building a simple, resilient, cheap network service with AWS

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In this post I’ll describe how I put together a number of pieces of information about AWS features to experiment with an idea. It’s nothing advanced, rather: it’s what happens when you are studying on something and you start seeing the possibilities. Don’t expect rocket science then, it’s more like a handful of notes I made in the hope they may be useful to more people than just myself.

Being an experiment where I was supposed to learn how to do things, it’s a manual set-up. Automation will follow, and in my case , it will be Terraform, but not in this post.

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