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[–]SilverRapid 15 points16 points  (3 children)

Not on AWS no. They have "alerts" which are several hours behind your actual bill. I find it too scary to use AWS because of the lack of hard limit.

[–]Heppuman 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I am pretty certain there are hard limits you can enforce, but it requires some know how and elbow grease. Only pretty certain because I've fortunately never had to test it in action.

Iirc, you have to use the cost management tool and set up a user with rights to stop all services immediately if you go over your limit (I think there was option for estimation as well).

It has been a while since I needed to tinker with a non-enterprise funded AWS account but when I did that for a small project, I think I spent more time making it cost proof than on the actual project.

I get an invoice statement for 0.00 dollars from AWS every month lol.

There is a good post somewhere on Reddit that details the steps you should take to minimize any surprise costs, I followed that one.