[drstewart]

>Besides, if they can trigger alerts at a particular spend then they should be able to create a limit.

That's not really true. The alerts happen when the billing is re-calculated (periodically) and you've exceed a predefined, not when you hit that exact threshold.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...

>When you enable the monitoring of estimated charges for your AWS account, the estimated charges are calculated and sent several times daily to CloudWatch as metric data.

Real time billing is actually a Hard Problem to solve.

[mcny]

> Real time billing is actually a Hard Problem to solve.

I refuse to believe there is no workaround. I can understand it is not easy to fix for corporations who need AWS to make money but that is not the use case for students.

If it were, Azure for students couldn't exist. Signing up for Azure for students does not require a credit card so they must have figured out a way to prevent / stop the bleeding?

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students/

[Closi]

Well stop the service on that periodic cycle then if it’s over the limit?

Non-realtime limits are better than no limits at all. Besides the cloudwatch documentation seems to suggest it’s reporting on a 5 minute frequency for most of AWS.