Considering the huge amount of developers having problems of this kind how hard would it be for AWS to implement a similar system?
Doesn't cost anything, can use different bank accounts for funding on a per card basis, configurable limits.
This is a royal pain in the ass for those of us with hundreds of cards registered through them.
If there was another service of this type that existed, I’d switch to them in a heartbeat. And I will no longer recommend them here.
2: New accounts since around October are already on the new thing.
I don't want to be that guy who yells out from my armchair to say something is easy. But........ quota management at its core is incrementing a number, then reading the number back. AWS is already doing things plenty more complicated than that. I'm sure they could build this if they cared to.
You have to configure (correctly) an AWS IAM account with permissions to run actions you have to specify when budget amounts are hit. There's no simple 'Do not spend more than $X per month' setting. You have to understand AWS's auth and roles to set a limit using an action.
At best you might get some alerts in a timely manner. Good luck.
I had a similar experience as you. You are getting lured in by the free tier, but then this paid additional service is needed and that paid on top. Didn't work for me at all.
Sadly, they don’t turn these things on by default. You have to know about them in advance, and you have to know how to configure them. That’s one thing I wish they would improve.
It is, however, far cheaper and has more transparent pricing.
I clearly did something wrong, but the process was so confusing that I couldn't tell you what it was. It probably had to do with running the server at sub-optimal times when rates were higher, but I don't remember reading anything about that. It was a Windows-based game server, so the extra cpu overhead might have had something to do with it.