Avoiding my $2000 AWS bill

[Nate Finch]

Actually, after some digging, it looks like billing alerts are only in a
single region.  I can't see a way to set billing alerts anywhere except
US-East.


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Nate Finch <nate.finch at canonical.com> wrote:

> 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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