Re:Using a single AWS account is a serious risk
by lfowles on Friday August 07, 2015 @08:52PM
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Yep, doing budgeting at the end of the month and I found a $20 Amazon charge. Turns out it was from a little bit of data I left on their DB service (which took _a lot_ of clicking to find the one I was actually using) after my free year had expired. Certainly not thousands of dollars, but for just experimenting with the system months ago, it was a rude wakeup call. Ideally I would have been able to say "Never spend more than $0.00, kill any services you have to, I'm _only_ using this for evaluation."
How? Very abruptly. I can stop the actual spend my side (credit card side) but I need Amazon to implement a legal mechanism that stops me from being legally liable for a (potentially) unlimited amount. Without that its too risky as a personal project...I'll rather do something safer like BASE jumping.
>You're spending $/hr on compute, so terminate your instances.
If everything goes to plan. hn is full of horror stories about people waking up to bills of people hacking their AWS & mining bitcoins. This would be a toy/hobby/project for me though & I'm painfully aware of my ignorance in this regard. Chances are I will screw up & have a bitcoin mining hacker on my account...hence me needing a hard cap.