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Notes on AWS costs, runaway bills, and building a real spending guardrail.
September 13, 2026
How a Lambda bill goes from $0 to five figures overnight
Recursive loops, retry storms, and traffic spikes have turned small side projects into surprise five- and six-figure AWS bills. Here's the actual pattern behind it.
September 13, 2026
AWS Budgets tells you after you're billed. Here's what actually stops it.
AWS Budgets and CloudWatch billing alarms are notification systems, not guardrails. They tell you about a runaway bill — they don't do anything about it.