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submitted 3 weeks ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Never used AWS but would it help to bake a daemon into your default OS image that shuts it down after 24 hours? That way you need to manually disable it for the ones you want to keep.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Usually what happens is people create lambda functions on AWS which are basically managed functions that get invoked when a request comes in (think a modern version of CGI), and then if there are a lot of requests then the user can easily end up with a huge bill.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Damn.

I suppose the obvious question of why Amazon doesn't have an intuitive way of rate limiting those can be answered by the huge bills people rack up.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

Because they have a predatory business model.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Y’all only have 1 comma in your AWS bills?