Ask HN: I (student) accidentally ran out of AWS credits. What can I do?

Contact support and ask nicely. AWS is often quite reasonable about at least partially forgiving small charges in such cases.

Yeah, contact support. I've done this with both Azure and AWS, and they refunded me without much effort.

Tweet at https://twitter.com/AWSSupport, they tend to refund/undo large bills when people get bill shock.

Hello hoerzu,

I think this might help to avoid such cases in the future:

Setting a monthly cost budget with a fixed target amount to track all costs associated with your account. You can choose to be alerted for both actual (after accruing) and forecasted (before accruing) spends.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2...

Depends what you are using those credits for. Can you do the same with Google cloud credits?