I already had the Mini, which I'd used for dev, but moved the dev back to my Macbook and cleared the mini down. I use my claude max plan so that was a sunk cost. I'm paranoid about one of the agents deciding to use my openrouter api as it would probably cost me more than a holiday to Europe. The AWS is the only cost and is coming in about $20pm, but I spun it up using the AWS free intro so should be $0 for at least the next 4 months while I burn the free credits. I wrote this about setting up for free on AWS: ( jamiewatters.work/journey/how… ) I had to upgrade disk and storage over this spec but it's not costing much more.
How much do you spend on all this?
I already had the Mini, which I'd used for dev, but moved the dev back to my Macbook and cleared the mini down. I use my claude max plan so that was a sunk cost. I'm paranoid about one of the agents deciding to use my openrouter api as it would probably cost me more than a holiday to Europe. The AWS is the only cost and is coming in about $20pm, but I spun it up using the AWS free intro so should be $0 for at least the next 4 months while I burn the free credits. I wrote this about setting up for free on AWS: ( jamiewatters.work/journey/how… ) I had to upgrade disk and storage over this spec but it's not costing much more.
thank you!