AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance
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Re: AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance
#2What I want is to assign pre-paid limits or just plain limits for a given resource group
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#3Gotta fund the next space trip somehow.
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#4I 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.
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#5I 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.
If this is an issue, use Lightsail or a tier 2 provider (like DigitalOcean)
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#6What's the point, if there isn't a discount for paying upfront?
Will some people/businesses prefer this because it's not 'credit'—does AWS scrobble to your Credit Report in any country?
I am failing to see the appeal here...
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#7I 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.
If this is an issue, use Lightsail or a tier 2 provider (like DigitalOcean)
That doesn't solve for the AWS only resources.
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#8I 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 think the same, it's put me off using anything but the free tier for learning. Azure was slightly better but still not ideal.
Re: AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance
#9I 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.
If not possible to cap price, starting with the capacity limiter on S3 and bandwidth limit at VPC level would do.
The possibility that someone flood the server even for static resources causing bandwidth spiked Bill is scary.
Re: AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance
#10What's the point, if there isn't a discount for paying upfront? Will some people/businesses prefer this because it's not 'credit'—does AWS scrobble to your Credit Report in any country? I am failing to see the appeal here...
This is for when the departmental budget has a little cash left at the end of the fiscal year and they need to spend it.