I've been explaining that to people for a bit now as well as a strong caution for how people are pricing tools. It's all going to go up once dependency is established.

The AWS price increase on 1/5 for GPU's on EC2 was a good example.

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renegade-otter a day ago | parent [-]

AWS in general is a good example. It used to be much more affordable and better than boutique hosting. Now AWS costs can easily spiral out of control. Somehow I can run a site for $20 on Digital Ocean, but with AWS it always ends up $120.

RDS is a particular racket that will cost you hundreds of dollars for a rock bottom tier. Again, Digital Ocean is below $20 per month that will serve many a small business. And yet, AWS is the default goto at this point because the lockin is real.

	▲	xienze a day ago \| parent [-]
		> RDS is a particular racket that will cost you hundreds of dollars for a rock bottom tier. Again, Digital Ocean is below $20 per month that will serve many a small business. And yet, AWS is the default goto at this point because the lockin is real. This is a little disingenuous though. Yeah you can run a database server on DO cheaper than using RDS, but you’ll have to roll all that stuff that RDS does yourself: automatic backups/restores, tuning, monitoring, failover, etc. etc. I’m confident that the engineers who’ve set up those RDS servers and the associated plumbing/automation have done a far better job of all that stuff than I ever could unless I spent a lot of time and effort on it. That’s worth a premium.