Re:AWS bill capping feature request thread still unanswered ...
by capybara_2020 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:14AM
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As a small dev, I do not care if data is lost and they stop storing the data/turn off machines. I am more concerned about the cost. I have had two cases.
1. Misconfigured software that we accidentally pushed into production and by the time we noticed it like an hour later we were $100s out. Luckily it was not in the 1000s other that would have sunk the business.
2. An old account of ours got hacked and people spun up like 50-100 servers and it happened overnight and we had a bill of $50k-$70k. Luckily Amazon wrote that off for us. Otherwise I have no clue how we would have ever paid that.
These are usually extraordinary cases, so even if there is a data loss or your servers are shut down, it is a better option than going down the hole with 10s of 1000s in charges.
1. Misconfigured software that we accidentally pushed into production and by the time we noticed it like an hour later we were $100s out. Luckily it was not in the 1000s other that would have sunk the business. 2. An old account of ours got hacked and people spun up like 50-100 servers and it happened overnight and we had a bill of $50k-$70k. Luckily Amazon wrote that off for us. Otherwise I have no clue how we would have ever paid that.
These are usually extraordinary cases, so even if there is a data loss or your servers are shut down, it is a better option than going down the hole with 10s of 1000s in charges.