[bsder]

> They probably will issue one if you haven't had to ask for that before, but it reflects badly on everybody that cryptominers weren't caught for two months.

As much as I'd like to agree with you, AWS makes controlling this WAY too stupidly difficult.

Out here in the real world, many of us are part of startups that have 4 people and a dog. We wear many hats, and "AWS Billing Expert" is not one we have time for.

I actually grind my teeth and recommend Azure to most small companies on this alone. GCP is nice, but I simply won't recommend them due to Google.

However, sometimes AWS has "that service" that you really need. And I just have to caution people that AWS will not protect you.

AWS could solve this. Simply allow people to opt into a hard stop on spending--some of us would rather be down than overspend. Let us make that choice.

The fact that AWS absolutely refuses to solve this speaks volumes.

[isbvhodnvemrwvn]

Having billing alerts is the bare minimum I'd expect someone half-competent relying on pay-per-use resources to set up.

Hard stop on spending would delete all your data and would not cover things which are billed e.g. monthly. There are AWS budget actions which address some of the issues (e.g. can put a hard deny on any actions or stop your EC2 instances), admittedly a relatively new service.