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Idle load balancers: the ~$16/month each you forgot to delete"

Short version: An Application or Network Load Balancer costs ~$0.0225/hour, about $16/month, just to exist , plus capacity units. Classic Load Balancers run ~$18/month.

  • Idle load balancers cost ~$16/month each due to fixed hourly charges.
  • Dormant load balancers often persist due to early creation and infrequent deletion.
  • Verify no traffic, empty target groups, and no external references before deletion.

You Benchmarked the Model. Now Benchmark the Server.

You picked a free model because the answers looked good. Good answers are not an endpoint. An endpoint is the model plus the server plus the network. Demos pass. Pipelines stall.

  • Benchmarking only the model is insufficient.
  • Shared endpoints affect latency and timeout.
  • Measure model plus server together for accurate results.

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