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I would speculate that Amazon doesn’t care about the occasional $200 mistake, and is perfectly happy to refund it should they notice. What they don’t want is c

by biztos 5y ago

I would speculate that Amazon doesn’t care about the occasional $200 mistake, and is perfectly happy to refund it should they notice. What they don’t want is companies that are spending say $2-4 million per month to be able to put in a hard limit at $2.5M. I would guess most companies spending millions per month on AWS are just guessing what next month’s bill will be, and have been conditioned to not freak out if it’s a million over, as long as that doesn’t happen every month. That conditioning has to start early.

staticassertion 5y ago
> What they don’t want is companies that are spending say $2-4 million per month to be able to put in a hard limit at $2.5M. Why not? It would make companies happy. The reality is that, as much as many would like this feature, I'm not sure that a lot of large customers are actually asking for it. Does anyone who works at a large company know if they've asked for this feature before? I can imagine why startups might want it, but also, AWS is extremely forgiving with startups and throws tons of money at them, so idk.