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Ask HN: I (student) accidentally ran out of AWS credits. What can I do?
Basically I was testing different services with my credits and suddenly I see this upcoming bill will be $200. Sure this seems not a lot. But I think it's quite hefty as there was no warning that my credits ran out.
- detaro 5y agoContact support and ask nicely. AWS is often quite reasonable about at least partially forgiving small charges in such cases.
- walterlb 5y agoYeah, contact support. I've done this with both Azure and AWS, and they refunded me without much effort.
- neopba 5y agoDepends what you are using those credits for. Can you do the same with Google cloud credits?
- rozenmd 5y agoTweet at https://twitter.com/AWSSupport https://twitter.com/AWSSupport, they tend to refund/undo large bills when people get bill shock.
- reputet 5y agoHello hoerzu, I think this might help to avoid such cases in the future: Setting a monthly cost budget with a fixed target amount to track all costs associated with your account. You can choose to be alerted for both actual (after accruing) and forecasted (before accruing) spends. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/budgets-managing-costs.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2...