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0 pointsBjartr6mo ago0 comments

Provide the user the tools to make these choices. Give the option to explicitly choose how durable to extreme traffic you want to be. Have the free tier default to "not very durable"

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kyleee6mo ago

Bam, you said. They’d do it if they cared, but they don’t and prefer the status quo. 100k surprise bill is the type of thing people kill themselves over. Horrific

raw_anon_11116mo ago

You mean like having a billing alert send an event that allows you to trigger custom actions to turn things off? That already exists. It has for years.

crote6mo ago

So why isn't it the default yet? Why isn't unlimited scaling something you have to turn on?

JustExAWS6mo ago

Because how you personally decide to handle cost overruns is up to you. AWS by itself can’t make that decision for you.

The opposite problem when you do set low limits by default is that you constantly have to submit tickets to AWS to ask for service limit increases.

How is AWS suppose to know whether you want to immediately scale or not?

And before July of this year, there was no such thing as a “free tier AWS account”. There were services that allowed certain amount free.

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