[superturkey650]

I made a similar mistake with AWS where I have $0.50 monthly charge. I called and they want me to go through a lengthy processes including getting documents notarized to handle it. So instead, I just canceled the card and am patiently waiting for them to shut down the account from failed charges. It’s been about a year now though and it’s still going.

[freedomben]

Oh man, be very careful with that. I don't know about AWS specifically, but many of those big tech companies have powerful ways to get you, and they often use them. You may be silently blacklisting yourself from being an AWS customer in the future. As they are fond of saying, cancelling the card is not cancelling the service. You still owe the money!

[azemetre]

These fears are why I never use AWS, GCP, Azure, etc and prefer something simple like DigitalOcean where I just add money to my funds via PayPal. If I exceed the limit, they shut down my account. Highly preferable than accidentally getting banned from say Google and losing my gmail where I access incredibly important things like healthcare, finances, utilities, etc.

[freedomben]

Same, most of the time, although I don't use Digital Ocean much after a client of mine issued a charge back having forgotten what "Digital Ocean" was (even though I explained it several times). before talking to me, they locked my admin panel so I was completely unable to fix a production issue. Then when I discovered what had happened they took several business days to "unlock" my admin panel. I suffered a pretty big reputation hit with my clients and was put in a position I NEVER want to be in again: "sorry normally it would take me 5 minutes to get the site back up, but it's gonna be <unknown> number of days until DO decides to unlock my account, long after I gave an updated credit card and paid the balance. I use Linode now, and hopefully Akamai won't mess that up.

[azemetre]

Ah that's a shame, I've never had much issues luckily and heard good things about Linode. I believe they are cheaper than DO now too.

[speedgoose]

I don’t know for AWS but I did that once as a teenager with another cloud provider and they sent a debt collector to my family home to collect a few euros. The debt collector had a nice fee.

[misstuned]

Let me guess, it had two 1s in its name...

[speedgoose]

Yes.

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

Related: AWS has an unwritten policy of giving customers one get out of jail free card when they inevitably fuck up. I’ve called upon this once, completely my fault, at work. AWS refunded me over $2,000 USD (at a company small enough for that to be a big number).