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Again, the $45K was due to a hack of root credentials. Not AWS being shady. If anyone got access to root on your machine you'd be screwed. If a total shutdown

Again, the $45K was due to a hack of root credentials. Not AWS being shady. If anyone got access to root on your machine you'd be screwed. If a total shutdown when aggregate monthly budget is triggered is insufficient, and fine-grained quotas are too complex, you probably shouldn't be in the cloud because Azure and Google are equally complex. Or do you like another cloud-computer service better than AWS because their budgeting quota systems are better? Please share, I'd like to know what you use.

prirun 5y ago
> If a total shutdown when aggregate monthly budget is triggered is insufficient I never said that. In fact, that's what I'd prefer. I don't use AWS for anything critical, only for testing, so I'm fine with my account getting temporarily disabled or all requests returning error codes. > Please share, I'd like to know what you use. B2. B2 has a 10GB free tier for object storage and returns an error code if that limit is exceeded without a credit card on file. They have limits (called Caps), like AWS, but B2 apparently automatically sets their limits low, because when I checked, my limits are $1, $5, $1, $1. Pretty sure I never set these. They will email or text when limits are exceeded by 70% and 100%. As far as I can tell, they don't have a hard limit (return error codes) once a credit card is on file like they do with no credit card on file, but I think that would be a good thing to add.