[fredophile]

There is no reason that cloud providers shouldn't be able to set up the same kind of billing options that advertisers have had access to for years. In Google and Meta ads I can set up multiple campaigns and give each campaign a budget. When that budget gets hit, those ads stop showing. Why would it be unreasonable to expect the same from AWS?

[bee_rider]

Cloud providers charge for holding data, for ingress/egress, and for compute (among other things). If I hit my budget by using too much compute, then keeping my data will cause the budget to be exceeded.

The difference is that cloud providers charge you for the “at rest” configuration, doing nothing isn’t free.

[pythonaut_16]

Great so they can give you an option to kill all charges except basic storage. Or let you reserve part of your budget for storage. Or let you choose to have everything hard deleted.

Surely these billion and trillion dollar companies can figure out something so basic.

[2muchcoffeeman]

How many small charges get written off though? If you make a $20 mistake, maybe you let it go and just pay.

Is that worth the support to refund the 10k and 100k charges? Maybe it is.

[easyThrowaway]

Because usually marketing works next to administration and legal, while dev, devops or infra is 2-3 layers of management below.