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Freezing a card doesn’t mean the debt is erased. They can still take you to collections.
"your honor, they provided the credit card to prove their identity for the free plan and now we want to collect 100k"
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This is an example of why cloud hosting is so scary. Yes, Amazon, and I assume Azure and Google's cloud and others, "usually" refund the money. But I don't want to be forced into bankruptcy because my five visitor a week demo project suddenly becomes the target of a DDOS for no reason at all and the hosting company decides this isn't a "usually" so please send the wire transfer.
They have billing limits https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide...
What would be helpful, would be if when you set up your account there was a default limit – as in an actual limit, where all projects stop working once you go over it - of some sane amount like $5 or $50 or even $500.
I have a handful of toy projects on AWS and Google cloud. On both I have budgets set up at $1 and $10, with notifications at 10% 50% and 90%. It’s great, but it’s not a limit. I can still get screwed if somehow, my projects become targets, and I don’t see the emails immediately or aren’t able to act on them immediately.
It blows my mind there’s no way I can just say, “there’s no conceivable outcome where I would want to spend more than $10 or more than $100 or whatever so please just cut me off as soon as I get anywhere close to that.”
The only conclusion I can come to is that these services are simply not made for small experimental projects, yet I also don’t know any other way to learn the services except by setting up toy projects, and thus exposing yourself to ruinous liability.
When I was learning to program through a bootcamp I spun up an elastic beanstalk instance that was free but required a credit card to prove your identity. No problem that makes sense - it's an easy way to prove authentication as a bot can't spam a credit card (or else it would be financial fraud and most likely a felony). Amazon then charged me one hundred thousand dollars as the server was hit by bot spam. I had the…
> The entire service with it's horrifically complicated click through dashboard (but you can get a certification! It's so complicated they invented a fake degree for it!) just to confuse the customer into losing money. By that logic, any technology that you can get certified in is too complicated? Most systems are now distributed and presenting a holistic view of how it was designed to work can be useful to prevent s…
When I was learning to program through a bootcamp I spun up an elastic beanstalk instance that was free but required a credit card to prove your identity. No problem that makes sense - it's an easy way to prove authentication as a bot can't spam a credit card (or else it would be financial fraud and most likely a felony). Amazon then charged me one hundred thousand dollars as the server was hit by bot spam. I had the…
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This is an example of why cloud hosting is so scary. Yes, Amazon, and I assume Azure and Google's cloud and others, "usually" refund the money. But I don't want to be forced into bankruptcy because my five visitor a week demo project suddenly becomes the target of a DDOS for no reason at all and the hosting company decides this isn't a "usually" so please send the wire transfer.
They have billing limits https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide...
When I was learning to program through a bootcamp I spun up an elastic beanstalk instance that was free but required a credit card to prove your identity. No problem that makes sense - it's an easy way to prove authentication as a bot can't spam a credit card (or else it would be financial fraud and most likely a felony). Amazon then charged me one hundred thousand dollars as the server was hit by bot spam. I had the…
> When I was learning to program through a bootcamp I spun up an elastic beanstalk instance that was free but required a credit card to prove your identity. Is it just me or is this just a cheap excuse to grab a payment method from unsuspecting free-tier users?
With that said, AWS is notoriously opaque in terms of "how much will I pay for this service" because they bill so many variable facets of things, and I've never really trusted the free tier myself unless I made sure it wasn't serving the public.
When I was learning to program through a bootcamp I spun up an elastic beanstalk instance that was free but required a credit card to prove your identity. No problem that makes sense - it's an easy way to prove authentication as a bot can't spam a credit card (or else it would be financial fraud and most likely a felony). Amazon then charged me one hundred thousand dollars as the server was hit by bot spam. I had the…
Didn't the bootcamp told you to, at least, setup a budget alert?
I'm not trying to reduce AWS' responsibility here, but if a teaching program tells you to use AWS but doesn't teach you how to use it correctly, you should question both AWS and the program's methods.
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This is an example of why cloud hosting is so scary. Yes, Amazon, and I assume Azure and Google's cloud and others, "usually" refund the money. But I don't want to be forced into bankruptcy because my five visitor a week demo project suddenly becomes the target of a DDOS for no reason at all and the hosting company decides this isn't a "usually" so please send the wire transfer.
They have billing limits https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide...
And as others have also mentioned, the reports have a delay. In many cases it’s several hours. But worst case, your CURs (Cost usage reports) don’t really reflect reality for up to 24 hours after the fact.
When I was learning to program through a bootcamp I spun up an elastic beanstalk instance that was free but required a credit card to prove your identity. No problem that makes sense - it's an easy way to prove authentication as a bot can't spam a credit card (or else it would be financial fraud and most likely a felony). Amazon then charged me one hundred thousand dollars as the server was hit by bot spam. I had the…
I feel like this brand of sentiment is everywhere. Folks want things simple. We often figure out what we need to do to get by.
Over time we learn the reason for a handful of the options we initially defaulted through, find cause to use the options. Some intrepid explorers have enough broader context and interest to figure much more out but mostly we just set and forget, remembering only the sting of facing our own ignorance & begrudging the options.
This is why k8s and systemd are have such a loud anti-following.
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This is an example of why cloud hosting is so scary. Yes, Amazon, and I assume Azure and Google's cloud and others, "usually" refund the money. But I don't want to be forced into bankruptcy because my five visitor a week demo project suddenly becomes the target of a DDOS for no reason at all and the hosting company decides this isn't a "usually" so please send the wire transfer.
They have billing limits https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide...
You get a warning. There's no service cutoffs or hard limits on spending.