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I wonder how much of that is people forgetting to shut down unused EC2 instances
by afarrell 11y ago
I wonder how much of that is people forgetting to shut down unused EC2 instances
- tootie 11y agoI think you'd remember when you get the bill.
- w-ll 11y agoExcept you don't get a bill, you get a receipt that gets buried in tons of junk mail. And as I reply to this, I decided to check my AWS console, because there is an instance for the life of me I can't terminate.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoHave you tried changing regions in the console?
- thoman23 11y agoAgreed on this advice. When I was new to AWS I kept receiving a bill for a few cents that obviously wasn't worth my time to resolve, but still really irritated my why I couldn't find a running instance. Turns out the running instance was in a different region and I didn't know the EC2 server list displayed only one region at a time.
- res0nat0r 11y agoIf you have the aws cli tool installed this will list all of your instances and their public IP addresses in all regions for you: for region in `aws ec2 describe-regions | awk '{print $NF}'`; do echo $region; aws ec2 describe-instances --region $region --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].[[Tags[?Key==`Name`]| [0].Value], PublicIpAddress]'; echo ; done
- click170 11y agoThis is the exact reason why I refuse to give amazon a non-prepaid visa card. Where I live, every grocery store sells them without requiring ID.
- cryowaffle 11y agoAre you trying to protect your identity or just make sure the bill doesn't go over a set amount? If the latter then it shouldn't matter if ID is required.
- egwor 11y agoI guess not needing an id just makes it easier. It's always a pain having to provide two forms of proof of address
- swalsh 11y agoThere's a lot of people to control instances who never see a bill. That's a different department :D This is the #1 benefit of B2B vs B2C. It's someone else's money.
- baddox 11y agoSee: the entire rental car industry.
- syllogism 11y agoIt really feels like they design the thing to make that happen. I got stung for over $100 just as a casual user, because I never guessed that I had to click through all the (slow loading) regions to see the instances and volumes and snapshots I might have burning money. The web interface is a total clusterfuck.
- fapjacks 11y agoAlso their documentation. I frankly find it a personal achievement to hear of people successfully navigating their documentation to a working solution. Just like you, I got burned for about a hundred dollars whenever they switched their UI for EC2 to only show instances per region. I have no idea when that change happened, but they weren't loud enough announcing it.
- jon-wood 11y agoWhile they're desperately lacking in good getting started documentation, the reference docs are some of the best in the industry. I'll grant they're not pretty, but they cover everything in detail.
- cseales6 11y agoThat was a concern of mine until I created alerts. Now I get emailed if X goes over a threshold, and the instance can be shutdown after another threshold.
- andymurd 11y agoAgreed - there's an opening for a great desktop software solution to manage all AWS services. Kind of like CloudBerry Explorer but for more than S3.
- ripken 11y agoThere is one, it's called elastic wolf
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- bduerst 11y agoGuilty here. It was a ~$500 lesson learned.
- jsjohnst 11y agoYeah, because that's a logical reason they make billions and not because large companies like Netflix (not to mention pretty much every tech startup these days) use them so heavily.
- beastman82 11y agoOr maybe, just maybe, he was joking.
- jlgaddis 11y agoPerhaps. Since it's impossible to tell, however, the safest assumption is that he wasn't.