alt Hacker NewsI thought same but when i threw a hello world on there and left it for a bit the actual spend ended up way lower than expected.
They're not doing a great job communicating this imo. Felt closer to cloud function style billing to me where its active or sleeping and the pricing alludes to that "pay only for CPU time used"...yet the dollar number they give is full time for 8 cores (I think)?
Props for very honesty but they're not doing themselves any favours there imo
Yes you're right. The CPU you get is pretty beefy, and they do a really poor job of marketing it.
I am not sure the average budget constrained developer is the right audience for this product. Might be a steal for enterprises though if they can run intense tasks at the edge for just $600-700 bucks.