Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by krainboltgreene on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:46AM (#27046622)

The budget limits are delayed hard billing limits. Everything I've seen/heard suggests while you can go over, they absolutely don't charge the overage.

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Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by kaishiro on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:50AM (#27046640)

This is simply false.

We go over our budget "limits" literally every month. We do this because they are simply alerts, nothing more. We have separate alerts set up for 25, 50, 75, and 100% of our "limit" so that we can track variable usage and catch spikes early.

We, of course, pay our full bill every month - over the "limit".

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Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by Guidii on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:22AM (#27049488)

^this. For business-critical operations you almost _never_ want to have your service shut down, especially as a surprising result of a big spike in usage.

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