Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is the cloud service offering from Amazon.
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Amazon WILL FIND WAYS TO WASTE YOUR TIME WHILE TAKING YOUR MONEY, so be careful if you choose to do business with Jeff Bezos. For example, you can receive billing alerts, but you can't turn the feature off (so you'll end up ignoring the onslaught of useless emails until you actually miss some invoice that is important). They realize that customers want to know what/where/when/how much their bill is, so they created a different "service" they call "budgets" that will let you know what your bill will be. And guess what? They charge for the service! They also have a separate "Billing Report" service. This one generates reports once OR MORE, '''daily'''. Instead of delivering these reports via email, they deposit them into storage that they charge for. You pay for the storage, and then you get reports about how much the storage costs, and the reports go into the storage bucket. I imagine at some point they'll just embed 1GB image files in the report so that they can charge a ton of money for the storage of the reports that tell you how much storage you're using.
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Maybe check this out later * Thread about AWS stuff you wish you knew in advance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7172060* [https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/#instance-type-matrix "matrix" of EC2 server offerings]* [https://ec2instances.info/?selected=r4.xlarge A much better representation of EC2 server offerings]