Avoiding my $2000 AWS bill

[John Meinel]

Which was sort of the whole point,  right?  If you had started the instance
in your normal region, you would have seen it and stopped it.

John
=:->
On Jan 9, 2014 2:16 AM, "Nate Finch" <nate.finch at canonical.com> wrote:

> 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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