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Why You're Paying Twice for AWS Service Calls

by heldsteel7 on 1/8/25, 7:27 AM with 3 comments

  • by heldsteel7 on 1/8/25, 7:27 AM

    Each AWS service call from private subnets could be adding unnecessary NAT Gateway charges ($0.045/GB) on top of standard data transfer fees. With 50TB monthly traffic, that's $2,250 in avoidable costs. Analysis of how VPC endpoints eliminate this double-charging, with performance implications and implementation patterns.
  • by herbst on 1/8/25, 10:52 AM

    I am not paying anything for AWS anything, exactly because of this in transparency.

    Is it that modern language stacks scale so badly that you actually need all that AWS overhead?

  • by ivanskripnik on 1/8/25, 7:36 AM