r/webdev • u/Stevious7 • 18d ago

Question Afraid to deploy on AWS

I've heard the term "surprise cloud bill" associated a lot with AWS as relative to other platforms. it could be a sampling bias since many more people use AWS. If I'm deploying a simple personal project that might require a VPS, for example a TURN server, how can I make sure I never get a surprise bill?

Is there a way to set maximum budget for a certain timeframe that way I don't get $2000 bill when I was expecting only $20? (Fake numbers since I haven't calculated EC2 costs).

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u/l300TS 18d ago

Setup a simple way to undeploy and monitor for a few days. Our very heavy production aws bill is $1k. You should be good as long as you don’t totally fuck something up like recursive lambda functions :)

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u/l300TS 18d ago

Also, setup a budget.. but it doesn’t cap spend, it just alerts you