Hacker News with Generative AI: Costs

I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100 (elliott-king.github.io)
A few months ago, I was adapting an official guide for an AWS service. Specifically, integrating OpenSearch with Amplify. I worked through the guide, and modified and debugged it for my own purposes. A few weeks later, I received an AWS bill for over $1200, and almost had a heart attack. I hadn’t selected the most expensive OS instance type. I hadn’t even used it much at all.
WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill (recall.ai)
IPC is something that is rarely top-of-mind when it comes to optimising cloud costs. But it turns out that if you IPC 1TB of video per second on AWS it can result in enormous bills when done inefficiently.
Getting a Japanese CERO age rating for your game costs extra per platform (automaton-media.com)
Getting a game age rated in Japan can be an expensive experience – especially in the case of multiplatform and physical releases.
How much energy does desalinisation use? Is it “absurdly cheap”? (sustainabilitybynumbers.com)
Elon Musk has said several times recently that desalinisation is “absurdly cheap”.1 
Traveling with a Laptop and an iPad to Mexico? Prepare to Pay Hundreds (forbes.com)
The 1-HR nurse visits that cost $15B to Medicare (wsj.com)
Intel to shed at least 15% of staff to drive down costs (theregister.com)
Why is it so expensive to make games in the United States? (gamedeveloper.com)
AI models that cost $1B to train are underway, $100B models coming (tomshardware.com)
Ninety-six thousand dollars spent solely on Vercel functions on one month (twitter.com)
How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure with a 90% Discount (ahrefs.com)
Updating California's grid for EVs may cost up to $20B (arstechnica.com)
We Built a Database of Prison Commissary Prices (theappeal.org)