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I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100

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461 points thunderbong | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 06:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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EduardoBautista ◴[14 Nov 24 07:48 UTC] No.42133947[source]▶
Maybe official AWS guides should include a tutorial to set billing alerts and limits as a prerequisite to many of their guides.
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1. baq ◴[14 Nov 24 07:51 UTC] No.42133970[source]▶
Maybe AWS could develop the feature that everybody asks for - the OOM killer (where OOM stand for 'out of money')
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2. EdwardDiego ◴[14 Nov 24 08:06 UTC] No.42134051[source]▶
Yeah, but then they can't win "customer service" points by not making you pay outright extortionate rates, thus further inducing lock-in.

It's very clever - either people pay the overages, or contact you and you can look good by giving them company scrip to spend on other of your services.