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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Because they have a predatory business model.