Do i get now a higher liablility because the alert alerted me and i now need to be aware of it?
so i'm going on holiday and i'm fucked?
You know, a billig alert is a nice thing, its not the solution. Host a few things on AWS, tell me your endpoints and your bill just might be already in deep shit before you read your bill.
The only reason Amazone did not charge the full price is because it's good marketing for them. I'm not sure if this also would have happened if the person would be less good connected/have gotten less visibility.
> so i'm going on holiday and i'm fucked?
That's why AWS is super problematic for any company which isn't big enough to make sure there is always someone reachable by billing alert 24/7.
A more extream case happened btw. a while ago with google serverless. Small startup with limited budged did a software error which massively increased data queries and got good publicity when they lunched and then was instant bankrupt, well except that google was also not sharing them because the bad press that would have caused.
> You know, a billig alert is a nice thing, its not the solution. Host a few things on AWS, tell me your endpoints and your bill just might be already in deep shit before you read your bill.
I agree, I'm strongly in favor of soft- and hard limits. (Per "project", with a dynamic limit of x-times of what the cost had been previous month, etc.).
Do i get now a higher liablility because the alert alerted me and i now need to be aware of it?
so i'm going on holiday and i'm fucked?
You know, a billig alert is a nice thing, its not the solution. Host a few things on AWS, tell me your endpoints and your bill just might be already in deep shit before you read your bill.