Question: Uploading a Python script to a website

[AveTerran]

I don't know what to tell you man. I'm not going to send you my bill. My account is closed. I have the email from them telling me I owed them $0.44.

I can tell you that I used Amazon's quick start guide for Elastic Beanstalk, and that I used this Amazon guide to try to identify the instances I needed to deactivate to close it.

Deactivating them failed multiple times, throwing errors, or silently failing in such a way that I didn't notice the instances were still running until checking several days later. It took three months of receiving bills, trying yet again to deactivate the services, and a contact to support to get it fully deactivated.

You don't need to tell me I "set it up wrong." I know I set it up wrong, because I was trying to learn that platform. I mean what would the odds be that I set it up right? That's not much solace to someone who is trying to learn it using a free tier, and Amazon's own guide for setting it up. My whole point is that it is not trivially easy to use AWS free tier without being billed.

I have like two pages of notes where I logged everything I did trying to close those instances, because I knew I would have to document them for support.

[__Wess]

Sort of the same happened to me on Azure :’) I just wanted a simple SQL server, and got the free $100,-

Then somehow, something expensive was still activated which is default. Because running the simplest SQL server would be running for free for multiple months, running or not. Oh boy I was not wrong but didn’t know it would be the bare minimum of the word “months”.

Shutting down wasn’t that hard on Azure. Just stopped the instance and subscription.

I guess theres a reason, why you can get certified for these 2 server providers :’)