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by btilly 1904 days ago
When it reach the cap, all your service stop working? This is incredibly user hostile.

Not nearly as user hostile as the possibility of an unexpected DOS on your bank account while you're asleep.

Which has actually happened to people.

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My experience is just one data point but:

My expertise is not at all anything related to web development so when I first tried experimenting with AWS for a side project I was terrified. It was an experiment for me and i didn't care if it deleted the data since the data it was storing was test data I was uploading. However, my budget for my entire side project was $500 and it seemed totally feasible (at least to a first time user of such a service) that some wrong lines in the code could balloon the requests or storage I made. At the time, I didn't even have $5000 of liquid assets and it would have been a nightmare.