The real answer here is cost limiting. I don't want my cloud provider to keep working at the cost of an order of magnitude higher bill than I was expecting because of a bug in my code. I want to be able to set a billing limit and have them degrade or stop there service if I exceed the limit.
AFAIK AWS doesn't have that. They do have the ability to send me alerts if my bill is unexpectedly high, but they still keep working until I go bankrupt. It's possible to use those alerts to implement your own "broke man's switch", but they don't have it built in.
AFAIK AWS doesn't have that. They do have the ability to send me alerts if my bill is unexpectedly high, but they still keep working until I go bankrupt. It's possible to use those alerts to implement your own "broke man's switch", but they don't have it built in.