How not to go into a big minus that you cannot afford using cloud services?

U

user_of_toster2022-02-17 08:09:40

Amazon Web Services

user_of_toster, 2022-02-17 08:09:40

I want to work with AWS for educational purposes, I plan to use Free Tier, but I am embarrassed by the possibility of going into debt, which I cannot afford. There may be several reasons - by mistake to launch O(N!) lambda, traffic will suddenly flood in, I will lose keys, and so on.

Is there a guaranteed limit on the amount of money spent, or is this the kind of risk that you need to take when working with AWS / other cloud services where you pay for the amount of resources used? To give an analogy - I want a card, I can afford to spend the Nth amount, but I do not want to take an auto-issued loan

PS: Do you worry about this?

Reply

Answer the question

In order to leave comments, you need to log in

2 answer(s)

R

rPman, 2022-02-17
@rPman

The general answer is not to use services that can lead you to a loss and / or use self-monitoring, do not trust the person who benefits from not reporting the overpayment in time.
unfortunately, even amazon virtual machines with a completely fixed and predictable cost can incur extra expenses, for example, to pay for network traffic
ps by network traffic, you can run a simple service on a virtual machine that monitors statistics on network traffic on interfaces and in cases with anomalies, send a message and turn it off car until clarification.

E

Eugene, 2022-02-17
@yellowmew

in the case of AWS, there is a classic way:
there should not be more money on the card linked to the account than you are willing to spend on sudden excesses
Well, set up billing alarms to stop everything on time (remembering, of course, that it arrives with a delay. Although now the delay has been It used to be something like a day, if memory serves)
well, to help https://aws.amazon.com/en/getting-started/hands-on...