[foreigner]

The real answer here is cost limiting. I don't want my cloud provider to keep working at the cost of an order of magnitude higher bill than I was expecting because of a bug in my code. I want to be able to set a billing limit and have them degrade or stop there service if I exceed the limit.

AFAIK AWS doesn't have that. They do have the ability to send me alerts if my bill is unexpectedly high, but they still keep working until I go bankrupt. It's possible to use those alerts to implement your own "broke man's switch", but they don't have it built in.

[babayega2]

That's why we use DigitalOcean a lot in Africa. You know upfront how much you will spend.

[miyuru]

You can calculate how much RDS is gonna cost you per month beforehand.

In fact, it is slightly cheaper at AWS.

Ondemand PostgreSQL, Single Node, 1vCPU, 1GB MEM, 10GB Storage is $15 at DO

Ondemand PostgreSQL, Single Node, 2vCPU, 1GB MEM, 10GB Storage is $14.29 at AWS (db.t3.micro at us-east-2)

if reserved for 1yr no upfront

Reserved PostgreSQL, Single Node, 2vCPU, 1GB MEM, 10GB Storage is $10.57 at AWS (db.t3.micro at us-east-2)

Or you can use ARM and go lower.

Ondemand PostgreSQL, Single Node, 2vCPU, 1GB MEM, 10GB Storage is $12.83 at AWS (db.t4g.micro at us-east-2)

[babayega2]

My experience is that on AWS there are hidden costs. Paying for traffic, and other stuff.