Ask HN: Has AWS ever surprised you with a bill?

Re:Ask HN: Has AWS ever surprised you with a bill? by shiva0801 on Monday July 07, 2025 @07:40AM (#44489247)

Yep — we got hit with a ~$1.8k bill spike on AWS due to a Lambda function caught in a recursive loop during a staging deploy. It kept calling itself due to a misconfigured trigger — we didn’t catch it for ~6 hours because it wasn’t high-traffic, just persistent.

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Re:Ask HN: Has AWS ever surprised you with a bill? by noway_bro on Monday July 07, 2025 @08:10AM (#44489517)

And $15/m would be interesting to not have this problem ever again? Is there anything else that would be cool to have with that?

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Re:Ask HN: Has AWS ever surprised you with a bill? by codingdave on Monday July 07, 2025 @11:32AM (#44491417)

I would not pay anything for a tool to fix this because you can handle it yourself with logging, budgets, and various alerts. The people who are willing to pay for this would likely only pay for it for a few months, until they learn AWS enough to protect themselves from it on their own.

So while the road you are looking down has some validity, it is also a high-churn product idea that only holds value for people who are brand new to AWS. I'd be hesitant to dedicate much time to such a narrow market.

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