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pansa2 on Feb 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building a static serverless website using S3 and ...

Are there any guidelines for controlling cost when running a static website on S3+CloudFront?

Say my regular bill for this setup was $5 a month. Can I at least get a notification if I have a lot of visits and the bill goes over a threshold, say $50?

Also, is there any protection against things like DDoS that could quickly push the bill into the $100s and beyond?

avip on Feb 17, 2020 [–]

aws (and all other cloud providers I've used) has a pretty elaborate cost alert system.

jfkebwjsbx on Feb 18, 2020 | [–]

Alerts do nothing to stop a huge bill.

justasitsounds on Feb 18, 2020 | | [–]

You can use a lambda function that is triggered by a cloudwatch alarm when your bill approaches an arbitrary limit.

What you do in response to such an event is entirely up to you

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