[samaman]

Ah, reminds me of the time I ran through $15k worth of compute in all of 3 weeks trying to do biological modeling. What was strange was that we were being charged for higher bandwidth even though it was not said to be any more for that same instance even if the usage stayed the same. We switched to Digital Ocean after that and that problem went away and had an all you can eat set of arguably better systems (32 CPUs vs 16) for $640 a month per device. So yeah, really do your homework, keep up with the notifications, and realize that they LOVE people like you! Why do you think cloud companies are so rich? Every startup idea gets put on there and either forgotten or blows up and ends up spending more in services. So yes, keep this in mind moving forward and dont listen to people who swear by AWS for x y of a feature because chances are they dont actually know what's going on behind the hood but have had to he trained it or heard about it in tech interviews if they are a cs person.