[forty]

I'm told some really fancy restaurants would not show the prices on the rational that "if you need to know the price, then it's too expensive for you"

Well, I think the same point can be made here: if you need a price cap, then AWS is too expensive for you ;)

[thitcanh]

I use a few free APIs with usage limits. Maybe I pay 10 cents a year. I’m always afraid to one time open an invoice to find out it’s way more than that for whatever reason.

The problem is that AWS markets itself as “pay what you use” and generally that’s extremely little for me, but if I screw up with Glacier I suppose I could get a $100 bill because I restored some backups the wrong way.

[toomanybeersies]

> but if I screw up with Glacier I suppose I could get a $100 bill because I restored some backups the wrong way.

You wouldn't be the first person to do that: https://medium.com/@karppinen/how-i-ended-up-paying-150-for-...

[NoPicklez]

Well that's just rubbish.

The whole idea of services like AWS is that it is scalable as a solution for startups, small businesses and large global corporations. Not just large corporations that would be considered customers of a "fancy" web services provider.

[forty]

Sorry about that, I thought the ;) would have made it clear that this is a joke.

[NoPicklez]

Cheeky! now it all makes sense, sorry pal I misread your post in that case