[citiguy]

Have you looked at the free tiers offered by AWS or Azure? It's a great way to learn without spending anything.

[newbye3]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26708148

The service is only free until you reach their limit. The post has 166 comments.

[jafo]

This sounds a lot like "an old guy's excuse".

If you are 60 years old, you learned how to monitor your spending in the late 1960s.

Same skill here.

[djmips]

When they were eight?

[res0nat0r]

Best way to prevent that is to set an account billing alert that will SMS you if your bill goes over $X dollars.

I doubt this feature will ever be implemented, as trying to provide some kind of real-time spend is extremely hard, especially when there are 100+ service bills that need to be aggregated, which usually is a batch process where these things get resolved.