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by another-dave 583 days ago
> What do you do when people hit their hard spend limits, start shutting down their EC2 instances and deleting their data?

Yes, why not? I don't see the problem here? If you didn't want that, you could set a higher spending limit.

If they want a little more user-friendly approach they could give you X hours grace.

> You've been above your spending limit for 4 hrs (200%), in 4 hrs your services will go into suspended state. Increase your spending limit to resume.