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A spending kill switch can be setup on AWS using AWS Budgets alerts and Lambda but it’s a DIY project, not a built-in feature.
by snorkel 5y ago
A spending kill switch can be setup on AWS using AWS Budgets alerts and Lambda but it’s a DIY project, not a built-in feature.
- cesarb 5y agoThe whole point of a "spending kill switch" is as a backstop when you make a mistake; but if you do it as a "DIY project", what prevents you from making a mistake on it? It has to be a built-in feature.
- ghaff 5y agoSo what services do you kill? Everything? Including databases and S3?
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoIdeally tunable, but sure. At least provide that option.
- sixothree 5y agoIf it can be done DIY, it can be done first party.
- dragonwriter 5y agoIf its done first party, someone (realistically, af AWS’ scale, a substantial number of someones) will mess up using it and nuke their account. Customer service can correct “we screwed up and have a giant bill” easier than “we screwed up and lost all our data”. So its not going to happen first party. (It’s also not really possible DIY as a hard certain cutoff at or before a limit, only at an indefinite interval in time and money beyond a limit. So you still have potentially unbounded expense.)