Anyone get pinged with a large AWS bill after the $100 credit?

[Deactivated] on 04/12/2013 - 10:44

Apparently a friend of mine was stung with a USD$365 AWS bill last month along with a nasty international transaction fee.

I haven't found any good recommendations and probably wouldn't recommend azure either as there are reports of accounts being hacked and spending limits removed by merely clicking "remove spending limit". These accounts would then be used to mine cryptocurrency, run a youtube views bot such as vagex, or running a botnet command and control center, at the expense of the cardholder. In fact on blackhat forums azure accounts are traded for very cheap prices which apparently they use via a proxy such as TOR…

If I had access to the NBN, I would probably host my own linux server for him, but apparently ADSL's 1 mbps is not enough.

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  • internet-stranger on 04/12/2013 - 11:16

    Hi,
    You can get VPS (Virtual Private Server) very cheap now from lots of hosts,
    What is your/their budget and I can direct you to a good host.
    Also what price range? And what was the account being used for?
    AWS is good…… but it still doesn't fit everyones needs.

  • _Bruce_ on 04/12/2013 - 11:36

    I am very happy with AWS, but it is not for average end users. You have to understand what you are getting and how you are being billed.

  • scotty on 04/12/2013 - 12:05

    Lots of cheap VPS hosting around. Check LowEndBox or vpsBoard for US / EU offers. Or go with this Network Presence offer that gives you a VPS from $6 AUD /month.

    As of AWS EC2 (I assume that's the service you are using?) it's pay-per use and its CPU-hour and out-bound traffic can become expensive if you don't monitor it. Moreover, AWS EC2 as a platform is designed for quick & automated deployment that can scale. I personally (being a cheap ozbargainer) won't host a 24/7 personal server on it.

    • internet-stranger on 04/12/2013 - 12:16

      hope your not a collector like me scotty, I have more VPS's that sense :/

      • scotty on 04/12/2013 - 12:41

        Went through the cheap-server-holic anonymous course and came out it a year or so ago. Feel much better now :)

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