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Does anyone run Laravel on Amazon AWS? What are your monthly costs?
My AWS account has been inactive for over a year, free tier expired few months ago, but I still wasn't being charged anything other then $0.51.
Two months ago I wanted to test deployment of Laravel application on my EC2, just to get an idea of what is involved. I got a bill later that month for ~$54.
I thought it was that high because I uploaded files a bunch of times. But this month I got a bill for ~$73.00 and I haven't touched the server. I took the index.php file and replaced it with a blank index.php file instead of deleting everything.
How come I haven't been charged up until I uploaded Laravel?
Looking at it more closely, it looks like RHEL is $0.076/hr and "Linux" is $0.016/hr. Can I run a webserver with SQL on "Linux" there is another option "Linux with SQL Web" which is more expensive, $0.079/hr. Should I just switch from AWS all together? What is a good alternative??
You have a micro red hat instance. That indeed has a price of $0.0716 per hour . A normal linux micro instance is $0.0058 per hour. That is quite a big difference. ($4,5 dollar for a month vs the $53 dollar for a month).
And besides that you have a load balancer active that you need to pay for. So you are not ripped off. A load balancer is not required.
You could also try https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/, pay-as-you-go solution. Deploy Laravel inside a docker container.
Does anyone with some AWS experiance know why I am getting raped by AWS here?
@UnFukWitAble Don’t use language like this, please.
In response to your question, cloud services like AWS only charge you for what you use, so check your bill for a breakdown of your service usage.
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