This is complete utter hogwash.

Up until recently, you could hit somebody else's S3 endpoint, no auth, and get 403's that would charge them 10s of thousands of dollars. Coudnt even firewall it. And no way to see, or anything. Number go up every 15-30 minutes in cost dashboard.

Real responsibility is 'I have 100$ a month for cloud compute'. Give me a easy way to view it, and shut down if I exceed that. That's real responsibility, that Scamazon, Azure, Google - none of them 'permit'.

They (and well, you) instead say "you can build some shitty clone of the functionality we should have provided, but we would make less money".

Oh, and your lambda job? That too costs money. It should not cost more money to detect and stop stuff on 'too much cost' report.

This should be a default feature of cloud: uncapped costs, or stop services

I low key live in fear that if I die, my personal AWS bill will get out of control and consume my entire estate before probate court can award my assets.

I don't know why every single person here insists on budget based limits. What you want is resource based limits with throttling and a calculator that takes your resource limits to determine the averaged monthly bill and a traffic spike bill.

Then the goal would be to set the resource limits to something you are happy with.

Yes, this is a pain in the ass to set up and AWS will probably never implement this, but it is the correct solution.

Lambda has 1mil free requests per month, so there’s a chance it would be free depending on your usage. But still, it’s not straightforward at all, so I get it.

Perhaps requiring support for bill capping is the right way to go, but honestly I don’t see why providers don’t compete at all here. Customers would flock to any platform with something like “You set a budget and uptime requirements, we’ll figure out what needs to be done”, with some sort of managed auto-adjustment and a guarantee of no overage charges.

Ah well, one can only dream.

I do my test infrastructure with prepaid credit cards. If billing goes over, I just drop the account and start again.

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