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Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by shubb on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:59AM (#27048401)
What if that engineer fat fingered and reserved a million GPU instances instead though?

It would be nice if cloud providers were better at surfacing potentially company killing things via their dashboards and nag emails.

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Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by nucleardog on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:16AM (#27059765)
Well, they’d have to first contact support and get the instance limits lifted… it would be one hell of a fat finger.
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Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by jiggawatts on Friday May 07, 2021 @04:59AM (#27073872)
Not everything in AWS is a VM with a limit.

For example, their CDN has no "TB per month limit". If your site gets popular and is 100% cacheable, you could be getting a million dollar bill.

I hear similar horror stories about the various distributed databases in several clouds. They're all crazy expensive.

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