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0 pointsmmh00008mo ago0 comments

Yes. They said it was free then they surprise charge you $100k.

That’s an insane amount of both money and stress. You’re at Amazon’s mercy if they will or will not refund it. And while this is in process you’re wondering if your entire financial future is ruined.

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JustExAWS8mo ago

I have never in 8 years of being in the AWS ecosystem and reading forums and Reddits on the internet had anyone report that AWS wouldn’t refund their money.

If you go over your budget with AWS, what should AWS do automatically? Delete your objects from S3? Terminate your databases and EC2 instances? Besides, billing data collection doesn’t happen anywhere near realtime, consider it a fire hose of streaming data that is captured asynchronously.

gitgud8mo ago

> If you go over your budget with AWS, what should AWS do automatically? Delete your objects from S3? Terminate your databases and EC2 instances?

Why not simply take the service offline once it reaches the free tier limit??

The reason why is that AWS is greedy, and would rather force you to become a paid customer…

raw_anon_11118mo ago

How do you take your S3 service offline when they charge for storage or your EBS volumes? Your databases?

SAI_Peregrinus8mo ago

Block access to the service until the next billing period starts, or the user upgrades to a paid tier.

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Bjartr8mo ago

Provide the user the tools to make these choices. Give the option to explicitly choose how durable to extreme traffic you want to be. Have the free tier default to "not very durable"

kyleee8mo ago

Bam, you said. They’d do it if they cared, but they don’t and prefer the status quo. 100k surprise bill is the type of thing people kill themselves over. Horrific

raw_anon_11118mo ago

You mean like having a billing alert send an event that allows you to trigger custom actions to turn things off? That already exists. It has for years.

crote8mo ago

So why isn't it the default yet? Why isn't unlimited scaling something you have to turn on?

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JustExAWS8mo ago

I have never in 8 years of being in the AWS ecosystem and reading forums and Reddits on the internet had anyone report that AWS wouldn’t refund their money.

gitgud8mo ago

> If you go over your budget with AWS, what should AWS do automatically? Delete your objects from S3? Terminate your databases and EC2 instances?

Why not simply take the service offline once it reaches the free tier limit??

The reason why is that AWS is greedy, and would rather force you to become a paid customer…

raw_anon_11118mo ago

How do you take your S3 service offline when they charge for storage or your EBS volumes? Your databases?

SAI_Peregrinus8mo ago

Block access to the service until the next billing period starts, or the user upgrades to a paid tier.

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Bjartr8mo ago

Provide the user the tools to make these choices. Give the option to explicitly choose how durable to extreme traffic you want to be. Have the free tier default to "not very durable"

kyleee8mo ago

Bam, you said. They’d do it if they cared, but they don’t and prefer the status quo. 100k surprise bill is the type of thing people kill themselves over. Horrific

raw_anon_11118mo ago

You mean like having a billing alert send an event that allows you to trigger custom actions to turn things off? That already exists. It has for years.

crote8mo ago

So why isn't it the default yet? Why isn't unlimited scaling something you have to turn on?

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