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0 pointsnapolux4y ago0 comments

In my experience you can only setup billing alerts, which are fair, if you ask me.

I took a good course on pluralsight about AWS and the first lesson was to setup a billing alert.

What will hard limits will do to your infra? You can't take down / suspend DBs, EC2s, etc... Just because you set a 1k USD limit and that's it.

Alerts are the 1st thing you should setup IMHO

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notreallyserio4y ago

> You can't take down / suspend DBs, EC2s, etc... Just because you set a 1k USD limit and that's it.

You (the cloud provider) can shut down VMs, block access to all services, and just retain the content in storage until the bill is resolved or the account is permanently closed. The cost would be trivial as storage is dirt cheap.

napoluxOP4y ago

Sure, but will they do that? It's easier to just charge people. :P

AFAIK Heroku shuts down your stuff if your Dynos are overspending :P

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