Side project. Normally the bill is $30 40. This morning the billing page says $1,940 month to date and there are 9 days left in the month. I have never had to debug a bill before. The console shows me a giant number and…
R2 was supposed to be the cheap part. 90GB stored, zero egress charges, I was budgeting maybe $2 a month for it. Invoice came in at $214 and almost all of it is Class A operations. Working backwards from the per million…
Marketplace site, user uploaded photos, about 9,000 listings. Bill was $341 and I assumed it was function invocations because traffic doubled last month. It was not. Functions were $34. Image optimization was $263. I…
Serverless Postgres, picked specifically because my traffic is bursty and I liked the idea of paying nothing overnight. Autosuspend is on with a 5 minute timeout. Bill went from about $19 to $61. Compute hours for the…
Video course platform, small. About 8TB/month goes out to viewers and growing maybe 15% a month. Total infrastructure budget is $400 and right now egress alone would eat all of it on the setup I have. Currently…
Document classification and short summarisation, nothing creative. Steady 2.4M tokens a day, roughly 80% input 20% output. Latency requirement is loose, everything is queued and nothing is user facing in real time.…