Their "free-tier" drives me nuts. It's always extremely convoluted and unless something has changed it's more of a 1-time "trial" for a period of time rather than a "tier" like GCP. Also their "free-tier" lasts different periods of time for different products. Like EC2 is 1 year but this is 3 months.

A baseline "free usage" everyone always gets and then if you go over, you pay, would be so much easier to understand. I understand it's not in Amazon's financial interests to make such a change but it always leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.

There is a permanent free usage limit though. For example Lambda has it. But agreed that they could differentiate between the different free tiers.

Ack! Ugh see this is what I’m talking about. I use Lambda for some side projects but I forgot about this because all the different products have such different types of billing and free tiers. I just wish it wasn’t so confusing. Thank you for correcting my mistake!

It's 4c/1k tile loads, vs $5/1k sessions for mapbox.

I don't have great handle on the number of tiles per map, but I wouldn't be surprised if my more complicated maps don't have o(100) tile loads per session.

On the other hand, a managed geoserver replacement would be worth a significant premium.