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mittalsuraj18on Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022

Recurring payment for less than 5000Rs do not require a separate auth. The bank has to notify the user by sending a message.

Recurring payment greater than 5000Rs requires a separate auth. (EMI's are not impacted by this)

mittalsuraj18on Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022

The headline is kinda misleading. They can store credit card information, but they can only do that in tokenized format instead of the current way of storing. Tokenized format hides the number and other information making it more secure. You can read more about it here https://www.thequint.com/explainers/rbi-allows-card-on-file-...

mittalsuraj18on How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue

Egress charges.

Lightsail and digital ocean give you 1TB egress minimum included in billing. Now try to input that number into EC2 instance. If I am not wrong, that turns out to be 130$ approx