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Had this bite me for my small-scale personal AWS setup. Have an AWS account I run some personal sites on, a Mastodon instance, etc. Got some Billing Alarms I setup that my bill went from normally $100 to $180. Got a $75 charge for USE2-ExtendedSupport:Yr1-Yr2:MySQL5.7 I mean I'm very used to Amazon's ridiculous fee structure but even this one caught me for a loop.

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To be fair to AWS, they announced the deprecation of MySQL 5.7 in January 2021, and many emails warned of this change throughout 2024.

Deprecating a service is one thing.

Charging an arm and a leg for a deprecated service is another.

Ouch. Glad you had the alarm (and that it reacted "early enough"). Anyhow, I think you may not be along with that surprise.

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