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Re:Serverless Horrors by raw_anon_1111 on Sunday September 07, 2025 @05:00PM (#45162098)
Yes, he could have set up a billing alert that triggered an action to shut everything down. Easy way is to take away privileges from the IAM roles attached to the processes.
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Re:Serverless Horrors by raxxorraxor on Monday September 08, 2025 @05:12AM (#45166154)
Bad design if that isn't in place for a new free-tier experiment.

This is the problem right here. I moved from AWS and specifically Beanstalk because I don't want to be some "certified AWS goblin". I just wanted to host something sensibly.

Other hosting companies don't have this problem and while I cannot complain about AWS as a service, this can be improved if there would be the will to do so. I believe there are other incentives at work here and that isn't a service to the customer.

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Re:Serverless Horrors by raw_anon_1111 on Monday September 08, 2025 @01:12PM (#45170902)
There is no such thing as a “free tier” in AWS. At least there wasn’t until July of this year where you get a $200 credit and everything is blocked until you upgrade.

There were free services up to a certain usage limit in a month.

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