I accumulated $60 on MSK serverless over a few days

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I accumulated $60 on MSK serverless over a few days

hanjitren

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December 23, 2022 at 4:18 pm

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Just a rant really. I'm used to lambda, DynamoDB etc, but got access to sandbox account at work and wanted to learn Apache Kafka. Turns out serverless version is not scaling from $0 like most, but it's actually more expensive than a single small instance. I left it running over the weekend and lo and behold: 1500% increase in cost on the account. And I've only just got access and cap is $100 for all users. I feel so stupid.
Any similar flops with unexpected costs?
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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182881 More actions · Answer 1

hanjitren wrote:

Just a rant really. I'm used to lambda, DynamoDB etc, but got access to sandbox account at work and wanted to learn Apache Kafka. Turns out serverless version is not scaling from $0 like most, but it's actually more expensive than a single small instance. I left it running over the weekend and lo and behold: 1500% increase in cost on the account. And I've only just got access and cap is $100 for all users. I feel so stupid.
Any similar flops with unexpected costs?

I have seen the entire dev-infrastructure budget depleted over a weekend when someone forgot to pause it, roughly $1500- an hour.

😎

These days, understanding the cost of the infrastructure service model is almost as important as the system's design.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003853 More actions · Answer 2

Rant understood and much appreciated. The cloud has many advantages but I still refer to it as "Smoke'n'Mirrors" for this very reason. There's also a huge chance that scaling out won't actually help anything because "crap code" frequently runs single threaded or the multi-threading will actually take longer to run because of the split/gather part of the code.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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frederico_fonseca SSCoach Points: 16007 More actions · Answer 3

smells like the usual lambda spam of "i got this" with a link

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003853 More actions · Answer 4

frederico_fonseca wrote:

smells like the usual lambda spam of "i got this" with a link

Most probably but I couldn't resist the temptation to rant about the cloud a bit myself. 😉

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)