#aws: Some Tips for Avoiding Those “Holy Bill” Moments
▻https://hackernoon.com/aws-some-tips-for-avoiding-those-holy-bill-moments-9e48e0cb1a83?source=r
Cloud is awesome, but it can hurt really bad when it bites back on your wallet.Cloud is awesome: almost-100% availability, near-zero maintenance, pay-as-you-go, and above all, infinitely scalable.But the last two can easily bite you back, turning that awesomeness into a billing nightmare.And occasionally you see stories like:Lambda programming errors that could cost you thousands of dollars a day!Holy Bill!And here I unveil a few tips that we learned from our not-so-smooth journey of building the world’s first serverless IDE, that could help others to avoid some “interesting” pitfalls.Careful with that config!One thing we learned was to never underestimate the power of a configuration.If you read the above linked article you would have noticed that it was a simple misconfiguration: a (...)