AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)
1348 points by xiaoyu2006 | 488 comments
Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.
#cloud-costs on Hacker News
14 stories tagged cloud-costs, newest first.
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner(isayeter.com)
841 points by yusufusta | 415 comments
A blog post describing a zero-downtime migration from DigitalOcean to Hetzner that cut hosting costs from $1,432 to $233 per month.
Don't rent the cloud, own instead(blog.comma.ai)
1144 points by Torq_boi | 471 comments
A comma.ai blog post describing how the company runs its own $5M in-office data center for model training, metrics, and data instead of renting cloud.
AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS(oneuptime.com)
636 points by ndhandala | 432 comments
OneUptime blog post revisiting its AWS-to-bare-metal migration two years later, sharing updated numbers and answering questions from Hacker News and Reddit.
Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server(disco.cloud)
730 points by jryio | 492 comments
A Disco blog case study on how Idealist.org replaced roughly $3,000/month of Heroku staging environments with a single $55/month server.
Migrating from AWS to Hetzner(digitalsociety.coop)
1005 points by pingoo101010 | 564 comments
A DigitalSociety blog post describing their migration from AWS and DigitalOcean to Hetzner, cutting cloud bills by 76% while tripling capacity.
Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)
392 points by nee1r | 267 comments
Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.
Why we use our own hardware(fastmail.com)
780 points by nmjenkins | 428 comments
Fastmail blog post by founder and CTO Rob Mueller explaining why the company runs its own hardware instead of using public cloud providers.
Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%(bilbof.com)
335 points by BillFranklin | 186 comments
Blog post by Bill Franklin describing moving Kubernetes infrastructure to Hetzner and cutting hosting costs by about 75%.
I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100(elliott-king.github.io)
356 points by thunderbong | 215 comments
Blog post by Elliott King describing how following the official AWS Amplify guide led to an unexpected $1,100 AWS charge.
Reclaim the Stack(reclaim-the-stack.com)
452 points by dustedcodes | 276 comments
Landing page for Reclaim the Stack, an open-sourced Kubernetes-based platform Mynewsdesk built to replace Heroku, claiming 90% cost reduction.
Cloud Egress Costs(getdeploying.com)
446 points by amzans | 278 comments
A reference page comparing data egress pricing, free allowances, and per-TB overage costs across major cloud providers.
I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars(ludic.mataroa.blog)
851 points by softskunk | 375 comments
Blog post from Ludicity describing how the author saved their company half a million dollars in minutes by changing a configuration setting, and criticizing industry dysfunction.
Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs(primevideotech.com)
826 points by debdut | 415 comments
Prime Video Tech blog post on moving its audio/video monitoring service from distributed microservices to a monolith, improving scale and cutting costs by 90%.