Alerts can also fail to be timely due to mail/SMS/other delivery issues, or the right people being in the middle of something else. This delay means it is still

Alerts can also fail to be timely due to mail/SMS/other delivery issues, or the right people being in the middle of something else. This delay means it is still possible to rack up and unexpected cost. Or they can fail completely. And the alerts themselves cost if you want something reliable so you have to weight that against the danger. Pay as you go cloud can be a maze of costing concerns.. > The only thing that would really help were a hard spending limit that stops all services except storage. Yep. Though that is small comfort if you need to guarantee more than a couple if 9s of uptime, hopefully those with that requirement can soak up the unexpected billing blips.