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Is it a good idea to use AWS through a prepaid virtual card to avoid such cases? I'm planning to set a up a personal site and I could afford the site going down
by leni536 11y ago
Is it a good idea to use AWS through a prepaid virtual card to avoid such cases? I'm planning to set a up a personal site and I could afford the site going down instead of paying $1000. The guy got refund though, but I would rather not going through this hassle.
- abricot 11y agoWell... even tough they wouldn't be able to charge the money to your card, you would still owe them.
- sisl 11y agoYep. Even if Amazon would claim the money you owe in realtime, they probably wouldn't shut you down if your prepaid hits zero. I use a prepaid for my Kindle purchases and Amazon processes the order even if the payment gets rejected, following up with increasingly insistent reminder emails.
- leni536 11y agoYeah, that's what I thought. I wonder why Amazon doesn't support some form of prepaid service. I feel that it's really a deal-braker for me for buying s3, these kind of horror stories scare me away.