[sergiotapia]

>'They' spin up spot instances which isn't subject to Billing Alerts. You'll need to cancel those spot instances, revoke your AWS credentials, and change your account password," he said.

This doesn't make sense at all. Amazon should let us if monthly bill > X send me a priority email and phone call. Why do they hide behind these dark patterns? I thought they were better than that.

[theboss]

The fact of the matter is amazon is a giant company and cannot thoroughly think through each piece of logic in their system.

The reward for focusing on this before-hand is much lower than just writing a check for $5k to this person and then fixing later (lot of $5k checks from amazon today. Wheres mine?)