[thorin]

You'll have a notice within 5-10 minutes if you continually carry your phone and are "supporting" your application 24/7. What if you want to go camping or turn your phone off when you go to bed or do a long drive or something?

[usr1106]

I don't want 5-10 minutes necessarily.

But what would be best practices for billing alarms? I have used them in the past when I used a bit more of AWS, but I don't think I ever got one (which is good).

But it happens to me that I miss emails that I would have liked to read in time for weeks. That could happen with a billing alarm, too.

Maybe you could forward it to SNS with SMS delivery. But as a matter of fact SMS is one of the few services (if not the only one) with a spending limit. If that is reached you silently won't get SMSes anymore, I have experienced that.

[tonfreed]

No need to be facetious, friend. Were I a more paranoid man I'd hook a lambda into the SNS topic and terminate all ec2 instances, delete all S3 buckets, delete all IAM keys and regenerate and send me the root password.

I'm not that worried though.

[mattmanser]

There's nothing facetious about his post, you've over-reacted to it.