Re:How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
by tedmiston on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @10:10PM
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> I am waiting for the moment when this assumption breaks because credit cards do not make users trustworthy.
IMO it is already broken, or beginning to crack at least, with the advent of throwaway virtual cards.
> Try to reduce the damage by activating Cost Anomaly Detection.
Yeah, this sounds like it could be a better solution than just using CloudWatch Billing alarms and billing alerts that I mentioned elsewhere. It's hard to tell at-a-glance if Cost Anomaly Detection is built on top of CloudWatch Billing alarms, or if they're just totally separate products. I don't seed the latter mentioned in the docs for the former.
IMO it is already broken, or beginning to crack at least, with the advent of throwaway virtual cards.
> Try to reduce the damage by activating Cost Anomaly Detection.
Yeah, this sounds like it could be a better solution than just using CloudWatch Billing alarms and billing alerts that I mentioned elsewhere. It's hard to tell at-a-glance if Cost Anomaly Detection is built on top of CloudWatch Billing alarms, or if they're just totally separate products. I don't seed the latter mentioned in the docs for the former.
[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori....