Amazon Cancels Fees for Customers Moving to Rival Cloud Services

Thread from earlier in the week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612607

Amazon is diabolical in the sense that the free tier expires over months, and by the time your bill starts creeping up with every single cycle, you've already built your infra around AWS. Thankfully I kept it as vanilla as I could, so it took my just a few days to bolt to Digital Ocean.

Best decision ever. A managed Postgres instance for $15 a month? That will get you one crappy micro EC2 box with Amazon. My bill went from $100 to $30! Imagine doing that at actual scale.

It was common reasoning that with very large scale going on-prem could be cost-effective, but you don't even have to go that far. It's a racket. It's not like there are no alternatives. Industry standard shmandart.