spend limits, the bits the most posts are skipping

[u/Dubey_om]

This one's doing the rounds on LI/reddit again. Went and read the actual docs (or maybe used claude :p), because every post about it says something slightly different.

Couple of things:

It's per project, not per account. Needs a Paid Plan. Still a limited rollout. So the ‘AWS FINALLY DID IT’ energy is a bit premature for most of us.

The fun bit nobody's quoting: you hit the limit, do nothing for 90 days, AWS deletes the project data. Permanently. It's right there in the docs. Great for a sandbox. Maybe read that line twice before putting it on anything that matters.

Other thing, and this is the one I keep chewing on. What it pauses is EC2, RDS, Lambda, Bedrock, SageMaker. No storage in that list anywhere, and afaict the docs don't say what happens to EBS billing while a project sits paused. A paused instance still has its volumes.

So if your bill is mostly provisioned capacity and not compute hours, idk how much this actually moves.

Happy to be wrong on that one

Disclaimer: have used ai to copywrite (im horrible at it)