I worked on a serverless project for several years and the lack of ability to run much of anything locally was a huge cost. Debugging cycle times were absolutely terrible. There are some tools that claim to address this but as of a few years ago they were all useless for a real project.

I use my AWS security key to run local tests. It works perfectly fine. You just need a ~/.aws/credentials file appropriately configured.

I have a makefile system which controls lambda deployments. One step of the deployment is to gather the security requirements and to build a custom IAM role for each individual lambda. Then I can just write my security requirements in a JSON file and they're automatically set and managed for me.

The real joy of AWS is that everything works through the same API system. So it's easy to programmatically create things like IAM roles like this.

1. Put your stuff in a stack. Deploy it to your isolated developer account. Basically free staging environment.

2. Use the officially supported docker runtime for local testing.

3. Treat it like any other code and make unit tests

4. Use one of the tools like localstack to emulate your staging env on your machine.

There are so many options that I don’t know how you could walk away with your opinion.

This is nowhere near being true.

CapRover is another good alternative, and also much more lightweight than Coolify, easily runs on even a 512MB server: https://caprover.com/

A number of the titles appear to have 69 or 420 cents added to the amount that appears in the story.

> Do you need to tweet about it to be reimbursed?

This is what scares me, is social media the only way to get things sorted out nowadays? What if I don't have a large following nor an account in the first place, do I have to stomach the bill?

Someone at a community group I'm in messed up playing with Azure through their free for non-profits offering^. We were out about 1.2k€. Not huge but huge for us.

Encouraged by comments on HN over the years I had them ask support to kindly to wave it. After repeating the request a few times they eventually reduced their bill to <100€ but refused to wave it entirely.

So even without shaming on social media, But it probably depends. It's worth at least asking.

^The deal changed about six months ago.

Relying on the mercy of a support agent that may be having a bad day is a poor strategy

No, at least in enterprise consulting for these kind of hosting, usually there is a contact person on the support team that one can reach directly.

However these projects are measured in ways that make Oracle licenses rounding errors.

Which naturally creates market segmentation on who gets tier 1 treatment and everyone else.

I mean if developer got charged with 100k, more often than not the bank would decline that first maybe if you didn't have that high credit limit

but what happen if this happen to corporate account and somewhere resource get leaked???

multi billions dollar company probably just shrug it off as opex and call it a day

That's why I like VPS setups. You hit the monthly maximum, and it just stops working.

I host demos, not running a business, so it's less of an issue to get interrupted. Better an interruption than a $50,000 bill for forgetting to shut off a test database from last Wednesday.

Not _really_. AWS has a budget tool, but it doesn’t natively support shutting down services. Of course, you can ingest the alerts it sends any way you want, including feeding them into pipelines that disable services. There’s plenty of blueprints you can copy for this. More seriously - and this is a legitimate technical limitation - of course AWS doesn’t check each S3 request or Lambda invocation against your budget, instead, it consolidates periodically via background reporting processes. That means there’s some lag, and you are responsible for any costs incurred that go over budget between such reporting runs.

Just set alerts that are not really timely and homeroll your own kill scripts its easy. It doesn't really work but its not really any harder than just fucking self hosting.