0x4447_product_s3_email

e is really the limiting factor for self hosted emails. Zoho is already QUITE cheap: https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html Maybe this would work as a business, but it's a bit questionable to me.

d 5-year apprenticeship under an experienced sysadmin? 100% - when I started working with AWS in 2016 I had a very hard time figuring it out, because I was looking for the simplicity the the marketing team was writing about. I really don't like what the marketing team tries to tell you, because it dose not exist. Regarding an approach to learn about AWS, I would start with all the serverless services that they have, since the pricing for most of them is ideal for beginners (WARNING - read the pricing page for each since not all have a free staring plane, like S3 and DynamoDB) and for simple weekend projects. For example, I did build this project a while ago: https://github.com/0x4447/0x4447_product_s3_email, if you scroll down to the pricing section you will see this: ``` All resources deployed via this stack will potentially cost you money. But you'd have to do the following for this to happen: - Invoke Lambdas over 1,000,000 times a month - Send and receive over 1000 emails a month - Perform over 10,000 Get and Put operations and over 2000 Delete operations in your S3 Bucket - Exceed 100 build minutes on CodeBuild - $1 per active CodePipeline (must run at least once a month to be considered active) The only payment you'll encounter from Day One is an S3 storage fee for emails and CodePipeline artifacts. ``` So you can have a stack that is actually doing something very useful that costs not even a $1 a month. It is possible to pay $0 to AWS, but you need to first understand AWS to be able to do it, another trivial example of a tiny project that is useful and cost $0 to run: https://github.com/0x4447/0x4447_product_secure301 The last point would be: don't listen to the marketing material - they are there to sell you AWS, marketing never cares about reality. I also recommend this website https://awsvideocatalog.com - pick a service and watch all the keynotes AWS has on that service, if you'd spend 1h a day, in 6 months you'll know more about AWS then anyone else complaining here.