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AWS really needs a hard limit of $50 by default. Any user that needs more needs to explicitly set the new limit only after some type of 2FA preferably an OTP ve
by superasn 5y ago
AWS really needs a hard limit of $50 by default. Any user that needs more needs to explicitly set the new limit only after some type of 2FA preferably an OTP verification. Most of the times these hacks are often due to leaked API keys.
These soft limits and email alerts are easy to miss and a lot happens by the time you can stop it.
- sixothree 5y agoAgreed. Things like static IP addresses and storage incur costs over time regardless of whether they are in use. But a limit would at least prevent new resources like this from being provisioned. Cost management at AWS is an absolute mess. And I believe it is done on purpose. I was tasked with finding out how much a virtual machine was costing us. It didn't have tags. The task was very literally impossible.