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Amazon is irresponsible when they let people sign up for a unlimited credit. At minimum they should provide hard billing caps.

• tekno45 1y ago
  putting stuff on the internet is dangerous. if you're not prepared to secure public endpoints stop creating them.
  • benoau 1y ago
    Putting stuff on the internet is dangerous, but the absence of hard caps is a choice and it just looks like another massive tech company optimizing for their own benefit. Another example of this is smartphone games for children, it's easier for a child to spend $2,000 then it is for a parent to enforce a $20/month spending limit.
    • jameshart 1y ago
      Are you really comparing a software developer provisioning an online service to a child buying tokens for loot boxes?
      • benoau 1y ago
        More the "dark pattern" of empowering unlimited spending and then what keeps on unfolding from it.
      • airtonix 1y ago
        [dead]
  • McGlockenshire 1y ago
    blaming the victim? stay classy. intentionally allowing huge billing by default is scummy, period.
    • JustExAWS 1y ago
      Yes, you as a developer should know something about how the service works before you use it. I first opened the AWS console in 2016 and by then I had read about the possible gotchas.
      • earnesti 1y ago
        Well, people get informed by reading these stories. So let's keep informing people to avoid AWS.
        • JustExAWS 1y ago
          Yes I’m sure large corporations and even startups are going to leave AWS because a few junior devs didn’t do their research.
          • crote 1y ago
            You do know that large corporations and startups employ junior devs as well, right? All else being equal, would you rather choose the platform where a junior dev can accidentally incur a $1M bill (which would already bankrupt early startups), or the platform where that same junior dev get a "usage limits exceeded - click here to upgrade" email?
            • JustExAWS 1y ago
              Well, first I wouldn’t give a junior dev with no experience admin rights to an AWS account and would I have tight guardrails around what they can do - like I’ve done now with over a dozen implementations for clients since I’ve been in consulting for five years and the four years before that as an architect for product companies. I also wouldn’t give a junior dev access to production databases. Also from working with AWS from both the inside (Professional Services) and the outside at a third party consulting companies, I know how aggressively AWS is about keeping startups and they would never risk losing the continuing revenue of a company like that.
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  • earnesti 1y ago
    No it isn't. There are many ways to put stuff on internet with guaranteed max costs.