Amazon launches billing alerts - payment alerts

Remember the story of how a small site in the cloud from Amazon received a $ 1170 bill in a month ? In the comments, many asked why it was impossible to make it so that when a certain limit was reached (let’s say $ 50), the instance would simply be turned off. I was also worried about this question, but I didn’t find any effective way to protect myself from a DDoS flashing into a penny or, say, habraeffect.

Webmasters, rejoice! Today, Amazon has sent a letter in which it writes the following:

• You can set an email alert that triggers when a certain threshold of estimated costs is reached.
• each alert uses one Amazon CloudWatch alarm slot and one Amazon SNS topic, the price for them is standard. Let me remind you that the free AWS usage level gives you access to 10 alerts and 1000 e-mails per month.
• you can set the alert to $ 0.00 to see when the Free Tier ended
• Before using the alert must be enabled in Account Management
• alerts are only available in the US East (N. Virginia) region . I think run-in and run in other regions.

Further details are available on Amazon Web Services .