> Perf is easy when you have AWS credits. I get that the point of this article is that launching > sustaining. But I have a horror story about AWS credits for

> Perf is easy when you have AWS credits. I get that the point of this article is that launching > sustaining. But I have a horror story about AWS credits for startups: a friend's startup got their account suspended for a couple days when their Credits ran out, they started getting billed 5 digits (as they expected), and Amazon's fraud detection detected this as an anomalous billing pattern and suspended them! For transitioning from AWS credits to billing!? Considering all their operations were running in AWS, and they were providing a HW-critical service to their customers, it was bad. This was late last year. This was despite getting reassurances from their AWS rep that the transition would be smooth.