[sleepychu]

Do you think it's an important feature for their paying customers? I've worked at places that care a lot about their AWS bill but I don't think any of them would have wanted a genuine hard stop before they'd do anything about it as a result of the soft alerts.

[geoduck14]

I've used AWS for my personal projects and at work. When I started at work, I didn't fully realize that "when an EC2 is spun up, you are charged for 1 hour, even if you terminate it" - so I accidentally racked up a big bill.

I was thinking it would be useful if Organizations could pre authorize users at $X before preventing them from doing more - of course the better solution is to manage releases through a pipeline that checks for stuff created and code scanning and... whatever

In the end, we use cost monitoring, but no AWS billing alerts

[reaperducer]

Do you think it's an important feature for their paying customers?

I think it is.

A few jobs ago, the boss of my boss got fired for a cloud service overage. Not a huge amount; the number on the grapevine was around $10,000. But it was enough.

For many (numerically "most," probably) companies, the IT department is a black box to upper management, and any unexpected budget overages are a serious problem.