On 2025-01-16 10:48, Cecylia Bocovich wrote:
I got a notification from AWS that our SQS rendezvous service exceeded the free-tier usage this month with over 1,000,000 SQS API requests. This is in some sense exciting news, because it shows that the rendezvous channel is effective and getting some use.
It does, however mean that we will have to start paying for the service. The current billing period falls on month boundaries, from January 1st to January 31st. The budget action fired on January 9th, which is pretty early in the month. Looking at our broker metrics[0,1], there were approximately 38,608 client polls using SQS.
I raised the budget limit to something that is still very low and here's the accounting for February:
- First 1,000,000 Amazon SQS Requests per month are free 1,000,000 Requests
- $0.40 per million Amazon SQS standard requests in Tier1 in US East (N Virginia) 5,102,813 Requests Total charges: USD 2.04
I deployed a change to have the broker read from the SQS queue more frequently[0] on Thursday, February 20th, which means that this will likely increase next month.
[0] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...