AWS will email you for months and months about billing issues before they terminate anything
This. In my previous company I was receiving almost every month some email from automated systems AND humans at AWS because either our finance dept screwed it up or AWS screwed it up but we had like hundred of thousands of $ in missing payments for months, and nothing happened (we always eventually paid AFAIK). Nowadays I think they are removing humans from the loop as much as possible though.
Indeed. My company forgot to warn the the credit card had been updated, emails were being sent to the work email of an employee that left... Took 4 months before they started turning off stuff, and even that was quite gradual, just enough to draw attention
I confirm this, had this multiple times
And AWS support is much better.
Some with Digitalocean.
With AWS the problems I heard was your bill getting really really high unexpectedly.
but they always find a solution to it. i've spun up redshift instances to play around that racked up thousands by accident, and they forgave them in a snap.
TBF that can happen with any of the big cloud providers.
We've had some mishaps with Azure billing and they did call for a couple of days before they switched things off.