I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100

Post by xnx » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 2:57 PM UTC

modernerd wrote: post #30

"Billing alerts" are a joke, give us hard spend limits. Then offer a way to set those limits during onboarding. Building a business on blank cheques and accidental spends is shady. It's also a large barrier to adoption. The more times devs see reports like, "I tried [random 20-minute tutorial] and woke up to a bill for my life's savings and luckily support waived the fee this one time but next time they're coming for…

Post by jkman » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:05 PM UTC

fallingsquirrel wrote: post #261

exhilaration wrote: post #212

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It's been mentioned several time in HN comments that the AWS billing code is a giant pile of spaghetti and there is generally a lot of fear around making big changes to it. That's been one of the more interesting inside baseball facts I've learned here.

And yet somehow every time they launch a new product they have no problem adding it to their billing code.

Post by cdchn » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:46 PM UTC

lucianbr wrote: post #267

cdchn wrote: post #237

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Now multiply the logic required by multiple cost factors across hundreds of services.

Imagine how impossible it is to actually build those services, with all their logic, if just this added logic is impossible :)

Post by traceroute66 » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 6:07 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #253

traceroute66 wrote: post #208

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> Hard spend limits are an anti-feature for enterprise customers Yada yada yada, that's the same old excuse the cloud providers trot out. Now, forgive me for my clearly Nobel Prize winning levels of intellect when I point out the following... Number one: You would not have to turn on the hard spend limit if such functionality were to be provided. Number two: You could enable customers to set up hard limits IN CONJUNC…

There's no way to implement a hard limit without getting in the middle of your system in ways that (a) alter the system design, (b) in ways you cannot correct for, and (c) not for the better.

Post by gs17 » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 6:18 PM UTC

codedokode wrote: post #108

weinzierl wrote: post #76

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It's not just AWS. I think there are only two types of cloud providers: The ones like AWS and DigitalOcean that shift the risk to the customer and the ones that offer shady "unlimited" and "unmetered" plans. Neither is what I want. I wish there was a provider with clear and documented limits to allow proper capacity planning while at the same time shifting all the availability risk to the customer but taking on the f…

It seems that automatic billing is something that cloud providers invented. For example, home Internet providers or mobile providers usually use prepaid plans, where they simply stop the service once you ran out of money (but you can connect your card account if you trust them). So you cannot get charged arbitrary amount for home Internet, and for mobile unless you travel.