Avoiding my $2000 AWS bill

Nate Finch nate.finch at canonical.com
Wed Jan 8 21:42:01 UTC 2014


Wow, I totally didn't realize you needed one per region.  Wish the support
guy had mentioned it when I said I was setting them up.  What a pain in the
butt.  What is with Amazon and not letting you do monitoring across
regions?


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Aaron Bentley
<aaron.bentley at canonical.com>wrote:

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> On 14-01-08 03:25 PM, Nate Finch wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Note that this is a per-region setting, so you'll need to set it up
> for every region you (may ever) use.
>
> Also, if you don't need AWS in particular, CanoniStack is even cheaper.
>
> Aaron
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