I am new here so please forgive me if I'm stepping out of line here.
Long story short, I recently got an aws account for side projects but I am scared that someday someone's going to go crazy with one of my public websites and I'd end up with a large $XXX bill. I have also heard horror stories from this sub about people trying something or forgetting to turn resources off and ending up with a large budget. I know we can set budgets and all but it doesn't work for people who want to cap the total $ spent.
I am a little surprised aws hasen't introduced this feature despite many requests (although when I think from a business pov, it makes sense).
Basically I am want to create an app where you could say something like
"I ONLY want to spend $XX per month, if my bill is more than that, shutdown my resources"
My idea is to create a website where you can set a budget amount (monthly?) for your account and setup rules for different resources ( like shutdown EC2, make S3 bucket private etc)
I am pretty good with creating backend tools and worked a lot with aws lambdas and s3.
I'd love to get some ideas from you guys.
Also if you don't think its gonna be helpful, let me know that too.
thanks
Long story short, I recently got an aws account for side projects but I am scared that someday someone's going to go crazy with one of my public websites and I'd end up with a large $XXX bill. I have also heard horror stories from this sub about people trying something or forgetting to turn resources off and ending up with a large budget. I know we can set budgets and all but it doesn't work for people who want to cap the total $ spent.
I am a little surprised aws hasen't introduced this feature despite many requests (although when I think from a business pov, it makes sense).
Basically I am want to create an app where you could say something like
"I ONLY want to spend $XX per month, if my bill is more than that, shutdown my resources"
My idea is to create a website where you can set a budget amount (monthly?) for your account and setup rules for different resources ( like shutdown EC2, make S3 bucket private etc)
I am pretty good with creating backend tools and worked a lot with aws lambdas and s3.
I'd love to get some ideas from you guys.
Also if you don't think its gonna be helpful, let me know that too.
thanks