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AWS announces flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security

19 points| arkon_hn | 3 months ago |aws.amazon.com

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[+] jsheard|3 months ago|reply
Nice to finally have another option for cloud tinkering without having the Sword of Damocles dangling over your bank account.
[+] aurareturn|3 months ago|reply
No always on server. Only serverless. If you are starting a new project, I think having a server is better than serverless. With serverless, you'll have to stitch together more 3rd party services to do basic things such as websocket, queue, DB connection pool, etc.
[+] hedora|3 months ago|reply
For endpoints that cannot be cached, do customers still have to wait for serverless containers to cold start?

I can’t tell from reading through the docs.

There’s a reference to delegating requests to regular AWS services, so I assume not, but it’s hard to tell without actually setting up free tier, then testing from random geographic locations.

[+] MagicMoonlight|3 months ago|reply
Why would you need an always-on server for a simple web page?
[+] rtyu1120|3 months ago|reply
I'm not even sure what are the target demographic for this looks like. For builders there are much cheaper options out there with better quotas. Currently the Pro plan gives you 50 GB for $15 and I'm unsure if this is a great deal at all.