Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by puszczyk on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @02:29AM (#27046824)

You can by insure for you as a driver and for your car (and in many jurisdictions have to) — this limits your responsibility. You can spend $10000 on AWS and still make a mistake and pay another $10k+.

I don’t get the point that AWS docs are free. I mean, they are free, but the services are not. Do you pay for a visit in a car dealership?

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Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @02:33AM (#27046841)

> You can by insure for you as a driver and for your car (and in many jurisdictions have to) — this limits your responsibility

Real insurance policies have maximum coverage limits, so, while it reduces your liability by a capped amount, it doesn’t, strictly speaking, limit it; you still face unbounded potential liability beyond your insurance coverage.

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Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @03:47AM (#27047244)

what's the biggest unexpected billing of AWS fees reported? I'm thinking 100,000 seems unlikely to be reached very often.

on edit: this is not to say that I believe an insurance for this kind of thing would really work (although maybe that is because I know nothing about the insurance business) just that I don't think the problem with the insurance would be that you could always end up getting billed more than you were insured for.

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