DigitalOcean's S3 offering probably would've kept this bill down a bit. Probably about $300 versus $2000.
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/spaces/#bandwidth
Digital Ocean may not be the best cloud platform but it's fairly cost effective.
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/spaces/#bandwidth
Digital Ocean may not be the best cloud platform but it's fairly cost effective.
Not only AWS is very expensive but also rather hard to use and all their forms and services pretty difficult to navigate as well, it put me off the cloud hype for very long time until I actually discovered reasonably-priced* cloud providers like DigitalOcean (or linode, vultr,...) with also very easy to use platforms.
* of course still pricier than dedicated hardware/VPS, however the premium for hourly billing and infrastructure maintenance is reasonable