I have a couple of AWS accounts for testing purposes and I also have an anxiety that some automated tests won’t clean up after themselves or that an account may get hacked, which would result in a huge bill.

Well, I’m not alone. In fact, a friend of mine once got a multi-thousand bill from AWS when he forgot to shut down something for his pet project. AWS nullified the bill once he contacted support, but you know, they don’t had to.

In this article. Corey Quinn argues that AWS “free tier” is broken. Yet, it shouldn’t be so. Both GCP and Azure (even Oracle!) have implemented free tier concept better.

Corey is a consultant, who helps companies reduce their cloud spendings. So, he knows what he’s talking about.

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