A scrappy startup in India is not AWS' ICP.

paranoidrobot · on May 5, 2021

A scrappy startup in <any country> could see an unexpected $5k bill as business-ending.

It's so absurdly easy to run up massive bills, and there's few controls, and practically useless alerting - so you can't rely on that.

Someone spun up a 3 node m5.xlarge RDS Cluster with SQL Server Standard? I hope you notice quickly, 'cause that's going to be >$5k/month.

They don't show a minimum monthly cost for any of these things, either.

No, you're assumed to be okay with unlimited charges, and are left to your own devices to figure it out.

hannofcart · on May 5, 2021

Not sure why, but they courted our company right from the beginning: got in touch with us within a month of us forming up, gave us a generous free startup credit, even invited us over to their Bangalore office and helped us with how we can optimize our infra.

Thankfully, the company reached profitability so we pay them rather hefty bills now. But I guess I agree with you in that that's not a typical startup's trajectory, and their ROI from the aforementioned outreach is likely relatively low on average so am wondering now why they went out of the way to help us.