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Re:Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014 by robbles on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @03:22PM (#7475785)
You actually can do this yourself quite readily, through use of CloudWatch billing metrics (which can be broken down by individual service). Define some alarms based on billing thresholds, and perform automated scaling actions in response.

AWS can't exactly do this for you, as explained by previous commenters, but they do give you the basic features you'd need for implementing it.

Re:Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014 by crucialfelix on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @08:38PM (#7477774)
There is a newrelic plugin that does this. It can graph your costs and raise alerts.

AWS Costs & Usage Analytics http://www.newvem.com/new-relic/

Re:Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014 by ericd on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @03:31PM (#7475861)
If you can get something to monitor your billing rate, you might be able to get PagerDuty to call you if your billing rate goes over x per hour.