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Discussion on: I was billed for 14k USD on Amazon Web Services 😱

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Jari Pennanen

If your account was hacked, even the spending limit (which AWS does not have) system would not work.

But in Azure you can set a spending limit:

"When your usage results in charges that exhaust the monthly amounts included with your subscription, the services that you deployed are disabled for the rest of that billing period."

And I think all other cloud services should have it, if you are running hobby servers and one of them is hacked. You are screwed with these non-limited services. At least with Azure you can set a spending limit.

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exbe

What about budgets on AWS, you can set it there to limit your actual spending.

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Mike Schueler

budgets is nothing more than an alert