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

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 3:51 PM UTC

traceroute66 wrote: post #214

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'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. Actually there is a third category, those who care. I will grant you it is a rare category but it is there. One example name: Exoscale[1] Swiss cloud provider, they offer: (a) hard spend limits via account pre-…

Post by moribunda » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 6:45 PM UTC

spacebanana7 wrote: post #143

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…

Hard spend limits are an anti-feature for enterprise customers, who are the core customer of AWS. Almost no level of accidental spend is worth creating downtime or data loss in a critical application. Even having the option of a hard spend limit would be hazardous, because accounting teams might push the use of such tools, and thereby risk data loss incidents when problems happen. Hard spend limits might make sense f…