AWS costs: Bedrock pricing - tokens, worked example per model
Amazon Bedrock charges per token for most models — a separate rate for input tokens and a separate, usually higher, rate for output tokens ...
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AWS costs: SageMaker pricing - notebooks are the trap
A SageMaker notebook instance keeps billing by the hour from the moment you launch it until you explicitly stop it — not while you're a...
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AWS costs: CloudFront pricing - and the free tier that got generous
Short answer: CloudFront still gives every AWS account 1 TB of data transfer and 10 million requests free every month, forever, with no sig...
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AWS costs: EKS control plane - $73/month before one pod runs
An Amazon EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service) cluster costs $0.10 per cluster per hour for the control plane — about $73 a month — and t...
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AWS costs: ECS on EC2 vs Fargate - the real hourly difference
The real hourly gap between Amazon ECS on EC2 and AWS Fargate is usually a few cents per task, not the 50–70% "Fargate tax" you...
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AWS costs: DynamoDB on-demand vs provisioned - the crossover math
If your DynamoDB table's provisioned capacity sits above roughly 29% utilized, provisioned pricing beats on-demand; below that, on-dema...
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AWS costs: RDS vs Aurora pricing - a small app, both ways
For a small app — one database, modest traffic, nothing fancy — Amazon RDS is very likely cheaper than Amazon Aurora, and the gap isn't ...
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What is AWS WAF? Pricing, Setup & Complete Guide 2026
AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) is a managed service that protects your web applications from common exploits and bots that could affect ...
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What is Amazon Route 53? DNS in plain English
Amazon Route 53 is AWS's Domain Name System (DNS) web service: it translates a name like example.com into the IP address a browser needs...
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AWS costs: Glacier retrieval - the bill for wanting your data back
Retrieving data from Amazon S3 Glacier is not free, and what it costs depends almost entirely on how fast you want it back, not on how much ...
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AWS costs: Unattached Elastic IPs and idle load balancers - the standing waste list
An unattached Elastic IP now costs the same as one that's busy: $0.005 an hour, roughly $3.60 a month, for every public IPv4 address AWS...
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AWS costs: Cross-AZ traffic - the invisible cent per gigabyte
Cross-AZ data transfer costs $0.01 per GB in each direction inside the same AWS region — so a single gigabyte that crosses an Availability Z...
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AWS costs: CloudWatch Logs ingestion - the log bill that outgrew the app
A CloudWatch Logs bill spirals for one boring reason: you pay to get data in, pay again every month to keep it, and pay a third time every t...
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AWS costs: Data transfer pricing - the map of what is free and what is not
Data moving into AWS from the internet is free, full stop, on almost every service. Data moving out to the internet is what gets billed, a...
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AWS costs: The NAT gateway bill - the $32/month nobody planned
Short answer: that $32-a-month sticker price is almost never the real bill. A single NAT Gateway costs $0.045 an hour — about $32.85 a month...
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What Is AWS Secrets Manager? Passwords Out of Your Code
AWS Secrets Manager is a service where you store passwords, API keys, and other credentials so they never sit in your source code — and her...
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What is AWS KMS? Who holds the keys to your data
AWS KMS — the full form is AWS Key Management Service — is Amazon's managed service for creating and controlling the keys used to encryp...
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AWS costs: S3 storage classes decided honestly - IA, Glacier, Intelligent-Tiering
The honest answer is that there's no single cheapest S3 storage class — there's a cheapest class for data with a specific, known acc...
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AWS costs: S3 request pricing - when storage is cheap but touching it is not
Amazon S3 storage looks cheap because the sticker price is the part everyone reads: $0.023 per GB a month for S3 Standard. But every PUT, CO...
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AWS IAM: AccessDenied on sts:AssumeRole — Both Sides of the Trust
The most common cause of an AccessDenied error when assuming an IAM role is a mismatch between the trust policy of the target role and the ...
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