Avoiding my $2000 AWS bill

[Nate Finch]

So, on Friday I got my December bill for AWS.... it was $2063.

I just about had a heart attack.  I had evidently left up a huge dedicated
instance in a region I don't normally use.  Luckily, after calling Amazon,
they were nice enough to waive the fee since it was my first time making
that kind of error, and they could see I hadn't actually used the server at
all.

It turns out there's a really easy way to avoid this: set up a billing
alert in AWS to email you if your estimated monthly bill goes over a
certain amount for a long enough time.

Basically, just follow these instructions:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/monitor_estimated_charges_with_cloudwatch.html

There are a lot of different alerts you can set up, it's pretty easy to
follow.  I highly highly recommend that if you don't already have this set
up, that you do it *right now*.  It's really quick and easy, and it could
save your butt.

-Nate



Seriously.  Do it now.
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