>Furthermore, AWS billing is uncapped, which has significant potential for trouble.
Two words: billing alarms. If you have stuff on AWS, and you don't have billing alarms for actual and predicted costs, you have nobody to blame but yourself for extra charges.
EDIT>> I see they address billing alarms but claim that they only fire after you've lost the money. This is simply not true with the predictive alarms. I get the sense that this author is not using AWS correctly in general.
Two words: billing alarms. If you have stuff on AWS, and you don't have billing alarms for actual and predicted costs, you have nobody to blame but yourself for extra charges.
EDIT>> I see they address billing alarms but claim that they only fire after you've lost the money. This is simply not true with the predictive alarms. I get the sense that this author is not using AWS correctly in general.