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Do you exclusively use the official Twitter API or do you also perform web scraping? How much did you spend last month for runnig this system?

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I only use the official Twitter API.

My last AWS bill is ~$600

What’s the breakdown of that? $600 is 20% of your revenue, and that’s a lot.

It's for EC2, RDS, and bandwidth, mostly evenly contributed.

I‘m running the system at 70% spare capacity.

I'm not worrying too much about the cost as of now because I have some free credits to spend.

Also, it's more rewarding to double my revenue instead of halving my server cost.

> it's more rewarding to double my revenue instead of halving my server cost.

How about cutting that cost to 1/10 of what you’re paying AWS, for a much better server? Since you’re running EC2, I assume you’re able to manage a server. Get a Heztner server and run your db locally:

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax?count...

Run back up hourly if you need to. You do not need AWS, not for what you’re using them for.

I have expiring free credits and I really like RDS Performance Insights :)

I would probably move to somewhere else after the credits run out. Will check out Heyzner then. Thanks for recommending.

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