https://cloudinfrasre.in/tags/terraform/Recent content in Terraform on cloudinfrasreHugoen-INRagupathy MSun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cloudinfrasre.in/posts/this-blog-runs-on-aws-for-one-dollar/Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cloudinfrasre.in/posts/this-blog-runs-on-aws-for-one-dollar/<p>Before writing about anything else, I had to put the site somewhere. The obvious temptation for someone who works with infrastructure all day is to over-build it — an EC2 instance, maybe a small EKS cluster, &ldquo;for practice.&rdquo;</p> <p>I want to argue against that, because I nearly did it.</p> <h2 id="the-bill-is-the-constraint">The bill is the constraint</h2> <p>A blog with no readers still costs whatever its infrastructure costs. A <code>t3.small</code> running full-time is roughly $15/month. Put it behind an ALB and you&rsquo;ve added another $16. Give it a managed database it doesn&rsquo;t need and you&rsquo;re at $60/month for a site that serves a few hundred static pages.</p>