Anyone else experience really high data out costs using AWS?

[usurpertothethread]

Hello,

I noticed high data out costs using the t2.nano ami. I made sure that everything was in the same availability group, switched the code to use private IPs and still seeing really high data out costs. Before I dug into another solution (this one seems to work really great for what I am doing), I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced the same thing and if they had a solution,.

To give more info - I am building a webscraper. On average I am processing about 30 requests a minute. I understand the reason for the amount of data, but from my understanding you should only be getting charged for data-out. And the bulk of that data-out is from the proxy back to the main ec2 (which is being transmitted via private IP in the same availability zone).

Any insight or experience with this would be appreciated.

[fabienvauchelles]

An idea could be to use Spot Instances