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If you mistakenly spend a small (to AWS) amount of money, they'll refund it. They're not out to get individuals. AWS is for businesses and hard limits on spend
by tinalumfoil 5y ago
If you mistakenly spend a small (to AWS) amount of money, they'll refund it. They're not out to get individuals.
AWS is for businesses and hard limits on spending is a liability for their pricing structure. Imagine you run a small business built on AWS and you hit your limit -- you're basically asking AWS to dismantle your business. They'd have to null-route traffic directed to you, shut down your servers, delete your data, de-allocate your IP addresses, etc. Your business won't be any better off than if you went bankrupt from a huge AWS bill.
- trutannus 5y agoOr Google. When I was a student I forgot about a TPU instance and spent over $10K in a single month, on track for $100K. Google refunded me since the server was at idle for most of that month outside the one hour I used it for.