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That's the point though. A beginner is going to make mistakes and should be able to learn in a safe environment. Think of a student on a tight budget at college
by danjac 5y ago
That's the point though. A beginner is going to make mistakes and should be able to learn in a safe environment. Think of a student on a tight budget at college or in a bootcamp, who has to learn AWS because it's on the curriculum.
- fleaaaa 5y agoExactly, it's pretty common for them to shoot their own foot with a couple of hundred dollar bill, just for one tiny instance with additional options that 'you have to do'. IMO AWS is deliberately make these things happen and reimburse it later with excuses. It's rather a strategy at this point it seems like.
- danjac 5y agoI don't think it's so much a money-grabbing strategy as the problem that AWS is less a suite of unified services and more a litter of puppies fighting in a sack. With that kind of org chart it's difficult to have a unified, simple billing experience with good beginner training-wheels and on-ramps.
- geoduck14 5y ago>AWS is less a suite of unified services and more a litter of puppies fighting in a sack Can I quote you on this? I'm going to quote you.
- _wldu 5y agoDoesn't the free tier cover a lot of what a student may want to do?
- lmz 5y agoThe free tier is just that, a tier (not a hard limit), and will not cover any use above the tier.
- tenaciousDaniel 5y agoYep. I'm a novice at AWS. Last year I heard about RDS, and tried playing around with it. I thought I had shut it down because I clicked some button that looked like it was the turn-off button. I let it go on for a few months, only to discover that I had been charged $1,500. The one thing that really pissed me off was how easy it was to set up vs how hard it was to take it back down. I can't remember the details, but basically you cannot simply turn off an RDS instance only in the UI (even though you can turn it on in the UI). You have to install the SDK and perform some (seemingly complex) commands. I tried explaining that I was a beginner, and that I made this mistake by accident, and that they could easily see that I had not actually used this instance at all or even put any data into the DB. But they wanted this huge list of things from me in order to refund it, like a super in-depth explanation of how it happened. Really shitty experience overall. So I canceled my AWS account and likely won't go back until I have a job that pays me to learn and use it.
- scrose 5y agoYou can ‘Stop’ a DB and ‘Terminate’ a DB through the UI. If you have deletion protection turned on, you can only stop the DB until it’s turned off, which can also be done through the UI. You most likely stopped the DB, but the problem there is that AWS will automatically turn on the DB after 7 days. You also still get charged for storage for the time your DB is off. Sorry to hear that though. I know it’s a really sucky situation to be in.
- tenaciousDaniel 5y agoAh yeah, I remember now. You could turn off the DB, but there was some other kind of scaffolding thing that I was still getting charged for. It seemed like an RDS-specific thing. They had to point me to a tutorial for turning that piece off.
- geoduck14 5y ago>You could turn off the DB, but there was some other kind of scaffolding thing that I was still getting charged for. It is a feature! /s