out of curiosity, is anyone who has deployed

prisma

servers keeping track of operating costs?

I think that's smart - yeah! And np! You should sign up for the Kubernetes beta at DO. I only got into Kubernetes a couple months ago, but now I don't know how I ever lived without it.

i will check that out, along with new heroku option 😉 lol

True - gotta use the fresh new features!

i have a cluster deployed to aws using fargate, it is around $50 for the cluster, around $5 for ELB and about 15$ for RDS...note this is with dev activity (meaning not much), 2gb ram, 1024

cpu

units

Oh wow! That was expensive...

yes it is a bit of a concern, however, with a few tweaks to the configuration (via cloudformation) I am fairly sure it can be reduced.

True. You can run Kubernetes on AWS though. There are a lot of tutorials for it. It might save you a bunch in terms of cost as it auto scales very well.

Fargate is ridiculously priced. These numbers our a few months out of date, but still illustrates:

Indeed

alechip, thanks for those calculations and your comments, that is useful information 👍