Re:Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees
by stjohnswarts on Thursday April 14, 2022 @05:10PM
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This is a side note. I've thought about setting up an AWS account just to play around with, what is the likelihood of a senior embedded c/c++ programmer really screwing up and end running up several thousand-dollar bill just because he put an innocuous infinite loop somewhere out of ignorance? :) Is there some trigger you can set such that CPU usage/bandwidth usage won't do something that you will never financially recover from since I won't have any knowledgeable devs to look to.
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Re:Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees
by KyeRussell on Friday April 15, 2022 @12:56AM
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Anything can happen. AWS gives you tools to manage costs, and bill shock stories are usually told by people that didn’t know about those tools. AWS unofficially gives their customers a once-off bill amnesty (within certain not publicly defined parameters) on the proviso that you set up cost alerting properly. I had to play this card at my current employer when I forgot to scale down an RDS instance. They’re very nice about it.
Re:Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees
by dessant on Friday April 15, 2022 @01:27AM
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You could catch such issues early by setting up a billing alarm.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...