--- title: "How AWS Raises Prices" id: "15023" type: "newsletter" slug: "how-aws-raises-prices" published_at: "2025-05-05T14:30:00+00:00" modified_at: "2025-05-05T14:30:00+00:00" url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/newsletter/how-aws-raises-prices/" markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/newsletter/how-aws-raises-prices.md" excerpt: "Good Morning! I lived through my Seattle diving adventure; not a single one of the Amazonians I went with had the Bias for Action needed to chain me to a radiator underwater. This works to my benefit! From the Community..." --- About the Author Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure. Sign up for the Newsletter Stay up to date on the latest AWS news, opinions, and tools, all lovingly sprinkled with a bit of snark. "*" indicates required fields ## [Good Morning](https://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3lo4nz2cgjk2d) ! I lived through my Seattle diving adventure; not a single one of the Amazonians I went with had the Bias for Action needed to chain me to a radiator underwater. This works to my benefit! ## From the Community [Shadow Roles: AWS Defaults Can Lead to Service Takeover](https://www.aquasec.com/blog/shadow-roles-aws-defaults-lead-to-service-takeover/) is worth keeping an eye on, methinks. My colleague penned a post about [RDS Reserved Instances: Where Did All the New Instance Types Go?](https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/rds-instance-types-excluded-from-ri/) Apparently it’s still possible to [create unencrypted Redshift clusters](https://www.fogsecurity.io/blog/shifty-business-redshift-encryption-aws) . My lightning talk at SREcon has been published: [For the AWS Bill is Dark, and Full of Terrors](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1skevfCoIbI&t=1520s) . ## Podcasts Last Week In AWS: [The Art of Amazon Q Developer](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/the-art-of-amazon-q-developer/) Screaming in the Cloud: [The Latest on Microsoft Security with Ann Johnson](https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/the-latest-on-microsoft-security-with-ann-johnson/) ## Choice Cuts [Automated HTTP validated public certificates with Amazon CloudFront](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/04/automated-http-validated-public-certificates-amazon-cloudfront) – FINALLY. Over a decade of customer requests later, you can now get TLS for a CloudFront distribution by checking a box. [AWS Systems Manager launches just-in-time node access](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/04/aws-systems-manager-just-in-time-node-access) – Neat feature, but I’ve never yet met a shop that was this stringent about removing access from their ops folks at different times of the rotation. [MAP enhancements to accelerate AI customer adoption](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/04/map-accelerate-ai-customer-adoption) – AWS keeps making changes to MAP, to the point where it now migrates more than any of the customer workloads it’s supposed to help. [Announcing SaaS Manager for Amazon CloudFront](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/04/saas-manager-amazon-cloudfront/) – AWS demonstrates yet again that they don’t actually know what SaaS means. [Announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/04/second-generation-aws-outposts-racks) – Time to throw away your old racks of AWS servers and buy a newer generation. [Amazon CloudWatch launches tiered pricing and additional destinations for AWS Lambda logs](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/05/amazon-cloudwatch-tiered-pricing-additional-destinations-aws-lambda-logs) – They still soak you for 50¢ per GB at the small side, before dropping off to 10% of that at scale. [AWS Launch Wizard automates multi-node SAP NetWeaver deployment on SAP ASE Database](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/05/aws-launch-wizard-multi-node-sap-netweaver-deployment-sap-ase-database) – If you’re dealing with that much SAP, you’re gonna need a freaking wizard in your party. [AWS Lambda standardizes billing for INIT Phase](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-lambda-standardizes-billing-for-init-phase/) – This is how AWS raises prices–not by jacking up hourly charges, but by subtly shifting pricing dimensions. 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