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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

611 points · 302 comments · elffjs

  1. jcims · · focus · HN ↗
    I work at a place that has an eight figure monthly AWS bill. They won’t use this.

    I had a personal development account for ~15 years. I tinker with infrastructure stuff and had built some centralized event reporting. One day about two years later I turned on sqs data events into cloudtrail. What I didn’t realize was that this closed a feedback loop and over the next couple of hours my run rate went to about $4k per day in cloudtrail+sqs usage.

    I didn’t realize it until I hit the next months billing alarm immediately the next month. I’d racked up $25k in usage fees.

    I’ll be using this feature. Nothing I run is worth that risk.

    1. demibabs · · focus · HN ↗
      Damn. Did you end up having to pay all of that?
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