Not much of a feature.
If that could be used as a hard limit that would be more interesting
AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance
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#32I really wish you could just designate a group of resources as unimportant, set a billing limit, and let Amazon nuke everything / delete your files / whatever, if you go over the limit. Everytime I try to learn cloud infrastructure stuff I'm terrified of the literally infinite bill that might show up from a typo a month down the line.
Oh yes, please. And to all the other commenters that suggest workarounds: Yes, better than nothing, but not exactly a solution to get beginners on board. AWS is complicated enough even without all the billing headaches.
Re: AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance
#33I really wish you could just designate a group of resources as unimportant, set a billing limit, and let Amazon nuke everything / delete your files / whatever, if you go over the limit. Everytime I try to learn cloud infrastructure stuff I'm terrified of the literally infinite bill that might show up from a typo a month down the line.
> I'm terrified of the literally infinite bill that might show up from a typo a month down the line Whilst this might sound funny, we were surprised to see it as a common use-cases with users putting https://github.com/infracost/infracost in their CI/CD pipelines to act as safety net. Currently it only works for Terraform users, but we plan to add other infra-as-code tools in the future. We're also discussing how we…
I think most of the cost for medium-large sized business are elastic(number of pods, bandwidth cost depends on requests per second, storage cost for many things increases linearly with users etc).
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't make much sense. You would still be on the hook for the eventual bill. This sounds like a showerthought hashtag lifehack.
It does change the dynamic / comfort though. Would you rather ask AWS to please revert $5k they put on your card, or talk with them about $5k they'd like to charge you but can't?
The former. But if we're talking about $5M instead, I'd be completely terrified of both options.
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#35Is this for Tax benefits? Where you could put in all your annual net profits for AWS credit?
You also can use this to meet credit card minimum spending for credit card bonuses.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't make much sense. You would still be on the hook for the eventual bill. This sounds like a showerthought hashtag lifehack.
It does change the dynamic / comfort though. Would you rather ask AWS to please revert $5k they put on your card, or talk with them about $5k they'd like to charge you but can't?
It doesn't change the dynamic though.
At their revenue, don't care about 5K charge, they can send to collections / sell to 3rd party collections agencies.
They do care about keeping you happy as a customer since your employers will be swayed by their employees.
So the former is much more likely to succeed, the latter will just make you look like a scammer.
At larger sums - they will do much more rigorous checks to avoid issues.
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#37AWS billing practices are horrible, and they are increasingly more “Oracle” like in their approach.
I had a security issue related to a SaaS product which led to a $7k AWS line item when someone started sending a LIST request to S3 buckets billions of times. They would not consider refunding.
Now I’m having a bunch of problems terminating some AWS Orgs accounts and they are being deliberately difficult in getting it tidied up whilst I’m incurring significant costs.
The whole billing stuff is complex and opaque and there aren’t enough controls and limits on spend. I feel like I need to dedicate 1 x FTE at least on AWS cost control which is a high cost for a small business.
As a CTO, I’ve previously influenced $millions in spend on AWS, but would be very nervous putting my reputation on the line to spend big with them in future. I’m frankly losing trust in their commercial approach.
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#38STORJ DCS (Decentralized Cloud Storage) has enabled users to pay in advance with crypto since day 1.
That site is weird. I get a "not found", then two seconds later the page loads. If that's my first interaction with the domain, I'm definitely not giving them money.
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#39STORJ DCS (Decentralized Cloud Storage) has enabled users to pay in advance with crypto since day 1.
They haven’t even had a working service since day 1 (still don’t?…)? I consulted for a couple of blockchains startups a few years ago, and this was the biggest piece of perpetual vaporware I came across. Good for them if they’ve finally managed to have a working product, but I wouldn’t be relying on it to work for a week, let alone some actually long period of time.
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#40Cheaper to park your money to AWS, rather than pay negative interests on your bank account.