[awsthro00945]

I think AWS drastically needs to create some type of "sandbox account" flag that severely locks down the services you can use and the amount you can scale up, exactly for reasons like you said.

However, I also think a big problem is that many people on the internet and especially people who try to sell AWS tutorials or learning courses push AWS as some toy that every developer should sign up for on a whim without understanding what they are doing. An AWS account is an industrial-grade tool, it's not a toy, and it should be treated as such. It's like renting a backhoe when you don't even know how to use a shovel yet, and then being surprised when you completely screw up your yard.

Sites like acloudguru that offer ephemeral sandbox AWS accounts are becoming more popular, and people new to AWS should really be steered towards those.