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> You bring up a good point - it would be a good idea for AWS to set some sensible max budget defaults for new accounts to prevent surprises. I didn’t say anyt

> You bring up a good point - it would be a good idea for AWS to set some sensible max budget defaults for new accounts to prevent surprises. I didn’t say anything about this at all. It would certainly be a nice feature, and one people have asked for since the very beginning of AWS. > Since they don't, if you are literally so concerned with your current costs for this month, you can set a budget and alerts for whatever you want, so that you don't exceed some cost. Again, this is a strawman. This isn’t a response to anything I said. If you’re trying to understand how much a new deployment on AWS is costing you, and find ways to optimize that, you don’t care about the total budget of the account, or having some auto shutoff. You need detailed, real-time information from Amazon, which I’ve never seen in the console. It’s been several years since I’ve had to be digging around in the billing console, so I have no stake in this discussion and things might have changed. Based on other comments being made around here, I really doubt anything significant has changed. I was just trying to clarify a comment you completely misunderstood.

exhaze 6y ago
> If you’re trying to understand how much a new deployment on AWS is costing you, and find ways to optimize that, you don’t care about the total budget of the account, or having some auto shutoff. You need detailed, real-time information from Amazon, which I’ve never seen in the console. No one who is working on this cares about real-time by the second data - the daily cost is enough. > Again, this is a strawman. This isn’t a response to anything I said. OK, what are you trying to say? If my response above did not answer the question, can you give me a one sentence summary of the point?
- coder543 6y ago
  > can you give me a one sentence summary of the point? >> I was just trying to clarify a comment you completely misunderstood. Alternatively, “The billing UI and billing infrastructure is a major weakness of AWS when it comes to helping people understand what their usage will cost.” You can clearly see this is true by the large number of people who complain about it.
- sam0x17 6y ago
  If you're working with, say ML workloads, daily billing is laughably broad. Some workloads run for an hour or two, and cost a ton.

exhaze 6y ago

> If you’re trying to understand how much a new deployment on AWS is costing you, and find ways to optimize that, you don’t care about the total budget of the account, or having some auto shutoff. You need detailed, real-time information from Amazon, which I’ve never seen in the console. No one who is working on this cares about real-time by the second data - the daily cost is enough. > Again, this is a strawman. This isn’t a response to anything I said. OK, what are you trying to say? If my response above did not answer the question, can you give me a one sentence summary of the point?

coder543 6y ago
> can you give me a one sentence summary of the point? >> I was just trying to clarify a comment you completely misunderstood. Alternatively, “The billing UI and billing infrastructure is a major weakness of AWS when it comes to helping people understand what their usage will cost.” You can clearly see this is true by the large number of people who complain about it.
sam0x17 6y ago
If you're working with, say ML workloads, daily billing is laughably broad. Some workloads run for an hour or two, and cost a ton.