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

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461 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 06:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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modernerd ◴[14 Nov 24 08:08 UTC] No.42134059[source]▶
"Billing alerts" are a joke, give us hard spend limits. Then offer a way to set those limits during onboarding.

Building a business on blank cheques and accidental spends is shady. It's also a large barrier to adoption. The more times devs see reports like, "I tried [random 20-minute tutorial] and woke up to a bill for my life's savings and luckily support waived the fee this one time but next time they're coming for my house", the less they'll want to explore your offerings.

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exhilaration ◴[14 Nov 24 11:59 UTC] No.42135373[source]▶
It's been mentioned several time in HN comments that the AWS billing code is a giant pile of spaghetti and there is generally a lot of fear around making big changes to it.

That's been one of the more interesting inside baseball facts I've learned here.

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fallingsquirrel ◴[14 Nov 24 14:04 UTC] No.42136220[source]▶
And yet somehow every time they launch a new product they have no problem adding it to their billing code.
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1. jkman ◴[14 Nov 24 17:05 UTC] No.42138292[source]▶
I mean, adding some shotgun changes to a messy codebase is always significantly easier than refactoring the whole.