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Every "cloud costs" post I read is either a horror story about a $40k bill or a vendor telling you it's basically free. Here's an actual measured number for something small. One web app, one managed Postgres, dev environment, light traffic, us-east-1, list prices: Load balancer: $17.01 Public IPv4: $14.60 Compute: $5.41 Data out: $1.80 Logs/metrics: $0.06 $38.88/month, and the application is $5.41 of it. Production with a real database is meaningfully more, but the shape holds: at small scale you're paying for the ability to be reached, not for the work being done. That's why the per-environment cost barely drops when your app is tiny, and why running four environments costs close to four times one unless you share the ingress. Two things that actually move this number at small scale: Share one load balancer across environments, routed by hostname. Saves ~$17 per extra environment. Scale non-production down to zero when nobody's using it. Compute is the only line that responds to that, but if you're running several dev environments it adds up. The thing nobody tells you before you start: the cheapest possible AWS app is not free, it's about $35, and it's $35 whether you have 1 user or 100.   submitted by   /u/ayush10212 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/22 04:04:27