On: Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets ...

[shubb]

What if that engineer fat fingered and reserved a million GPU instances instead though?

It would be nice if cloud providers were better at surfacing potentially company killing things via their dashboards and nag emails.

[nucleardog → shubb]

Well, they’d have to first contact support and get the instance limits lifted… it would be one hell of a fat finger.

[jiggawatts → nucleardog]

Not everything in AWS is a VM with a limit.

For example, their CDN has no "TB per month limit". If your site gets popular and is 100% cacheable, you could be getting a million dollar bill.

I hear similar horror stories about the various distributed databases in several clouds. They're all crazy expensive.