>For every Lightsail plan you use, we charge you the fixed hourly price, up to the maximum monthly plan cost.
Wording implies the monthly pricing is a 'maximum' price.
> Data transfer overages above the free allowance are charged at $0.09/GB.
On the $5 instance the second TB (at $90) is 18 times as expensive as the instance itself with the first TB included.
Hetzner charges 1.36€ per Terabyte of traffic, and with most servers, gives you 10-20TB included.
I’ve heard people talk about the ridiculous traffic costs of AWS, but this is an entirely new dimension of expensive.
That amount of traffic is more than 2000 EUR per month at AWS. Of course this is comparing entirely different things, but still, if you have significant traffic and can't avoid it with a CDN or something like that, AWS (as well as Google and Microsoft clouds) get seriously expensive.
Edit: just did some research, there are many cases this isn't true
Plus there's nothing stopping someone breaking into your account and upgrading it in all kinds of evil ways (which has been a huge hassle with AWS tokens being stolen from e.g. Github).
