AWS costs every programmer should know (2019)
It&#x27;s interesting how AWS can keep so high prices on these. But it&#x27;s just the beginning, the real money comes from when  they convince you to run over a dozen vms&#x2F;containers (all needing storage etc of course).<p>You need to be triply redundant on 3 availability zones, (3x) both with the RDS db cluster and app containers (2x) . And then have separate dev&#x2F;staging&#x2F;prod envs (3x). That&#x27;s 18x.<p>You can then get a pat on the head (&quot;pass AWS well-architected review&quot;). Then they innovate &quot;serverless&quot; stuff where you can pour developer man months and years to save on this overpriced things by making everything more complex, hard to monitor&#x2F;debug and learn new aws specific techs, so you can get faux savings. Here they&#x27;re buying your long term lock-in by getting AWS specialists and advocates on your long term payroll. They&#x27;re doing certifications and investing in AWS careers that can carry over to the next employer too.<p>And don&#x27;t even get me started on how much work by this time has gone to build the infra-as-code to manage the rube golderg machine, you&#x27;ll (seriously) have more lines of CDK code than app logic (that was slower to develop &amp; harder to debug than your actual app code per line).<p>Just about now someone in your newly grown cloud herding engineering org champios the idea &quot;I know what will help, let&#x27;s start using Kubernetes&quot;. They&#x27;ve probably never  costed &#x2F; self administered a server in production use, or if they have, they know to keep quiet.