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I remember being very new to all of this (still am) and being absolutely petrified that as I was exploring an Amazon stack that I'd unintentionally rack up thou

I remember being very new to all of this (still am) and being absolutely petrified that as I was exploring an Amazon stack that I'd unintentionally rack up thousands of dollars of charges for an honest mistake. There was part of me that felt so much better about using App Engine at the time; in that case, I had full confidence that the worst I could do is have the app I was building just break if I got to a certain quota limit. That put my mind SO MUCH more at ease. The risk of an accidental cost overrun has kept me from learnings/using AWS to certainly a detrimental degree for me, but the fear of something like this happening is very, very real.

StratusBen 5y ago
Disclosure - I'm Co-Founder and CEO of https://vantage.sh/ https://vantage.sh/ Hopefully the downvote brigade doesn't come after me as I'm truly just trying to share this as I think it'd be helpful in the context of this post and I imagine the majority of folks on HN would fit into our free tier...but this is a huge reason why people use Vantage (linked above) We profile all resources by hitting List/Describe service APIs in your AWS account and automatically apply rates based off of that. So essentially you get a full inventory of everything in your AWS account and see exactly how much its costing you per hour and also if it were extrapolated out for the full month. People tend to use Vantage as a companion to their IaC that's provisioning things to gut-check from a cost perspective.
- mook 5y ago
  Your product doesn't help this situation at all. The problem is people want capped spending for unimportant projects (just cut off service rather than accruing charges), which can only be done by AWS. You're just providing reporting assuming no additional charges.