[HenryBemis]

Thank you for this. How can anyone run ANY service with ANY company and not add a clause in the contract (and then have the alerts up an running) in controlling costs?

I remember PagerDuty was advertising (a lot) on Leo Laporte's podcasts a few years back.

A clause in the contract: if monthly bill reaches $Xk amount then:

(a) seek written approval by client, and

(b) continue until $Yk or approval is given with a new ceiling price.

[MattSayar]

I was just playing around with AWS a while ago and was surprised that I could not find any option to put a cap on the amount I'd spend in a month. Only thing I could do was set up alerts.

I imagine AWS would have 0 problems suspending all my services if I can't pay, so why can't it do the same thing when it reaches my arbitrary cap?