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Apptio
Company blog · blog.cloudability.combusinesssystems
Apptio is the company blog at blog.cloudability.com, writing about business and systems. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Cloudability's blog for AWS cost material, including S3 request pricing and how egress charges can be broken down with tags.
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What Hacker News says?
It obviously depends on how many files we are talking about but copying files to a new bucket in the same region will not cost that much. You could definitely make the case to AWS that you don't want to pay since they are removing a feature and you might get a concession. $0.005 / 1,000 copy requests... ref: https://blog.cloudability.com/aws-s3-understanding-cloud-sto... Also you will likely want to use some sort of…
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on “Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests”Submitted IT Consumerization: The end of IT is nigh as a story · 19 points
HN discussionEgress charges leverage tags now. You can get down to good detail. Here's an image showing it will use tags if you set them: https://blog.cloudability.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/dat... In this case, a service tag, set in some cases, not in others.
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on “AWS costs every programmer should know”Submitted Keeping your Javascript clean as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three ops lessons you should learn before your next outage as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another AWS Outage: Six Questions You’re Likely to Get From Your Boss as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Try out these three simple resolutions to help manage your AWS usage in 2013. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing Technical Debt ... with Fire as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What you need to know about blended rates on AWS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud costs join your most salient KPIs with Cloudability's Geckoboard widget as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloudability is about to get 24x more awesome for AWS users as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top good reasons that you’re not (just) using the Cloud as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The future of the Cloud as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eight ways to lower your DynamoDB costs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS Elastic Load Balancers are now taggable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Simian Army wants you ... to save some money on AWS. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five benefits of the cloud that have nothing to do with costs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 year reserved instances are better value than you think as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing Cloudability Multi User Support as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working at a Startup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloudability closes an $8.7 million Series A round as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud ops lessons you should learn before your next outage as a story · 1 points
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