learning how the various AWS services work.Should I use AWS for my personal projects? this poster has identified the major pain point of AWS: pricing is not transparent nor predictable, and many essential services (like bandwidth) are sold at a premium compared to the competition.
InfoSec News on a micro/small EC2 instance ( link) a single EC2 instance rarely makes sense, and I would really like to know with which server the price comparison was done.Teamspeak and Mumble server on EC2 instance ( link) this is something that should have gone on Digital Ocean or Vultr or OVH again, and it would have been $5-$10 without thinking for a single moment about complexity like spot instances or turning it off when not in use.good use of cheap resources and variable pricing to pay only for what’s actually usedĪ minecraft server for $15 a month ( link).this is a good use of S3, there isn’t another solution that cheap and with the same performance – just watch out for the bandwidth costs if the sites get popularīack up some stuff on S3 and Glacier for $1 a month ( link).one single EC2 instance doesn’t give any of the cloud benefits, I would move to a DigitalOcean or Vultr VM for $10 per month and maybe keep CloudFront for the static files if the performance gain is significantĪ few low traffic static sites out of S3 for about 3 cents a month ( link).automating backups is quite easy, the only worthwhile part seems to be the elastic beanstalk fault tolerance – excluding this factor, I would rather pay $10 each month to DigitalOcean or Vultr to host the same blog and get probably better performanceĪ bunch of dumb personal sites ( link) on a single EC2 micro instance + CloudFront for $20 per month.a personal Ghost blog with the database on RDS and the static files on S3 ( link) – monthly cost $15 + the upfront reservation cost + the S3 cost and the bandwidth cost Since I’m writing a book on hosting web applications I couldn’t keep myself from giving my advice on whether AWS is right or not for the use cases listed in the Reddit thread. I came across a Reddit thread Anyone use AWS for personal stuff? where people are discussing how much does it cost to host an application in AWS. I wanted to control the money I spend each month in hosting services, and I ended up choosing a dedicated server at Hetzner and a VPS at LeaseWeb. Hosting those projects by myself allows me to learn how those services work, gives me more control over my data, and helps some non-profit entities I work with. If you’re like me, you have a number of personal projects and applications that you host somewhere.
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