Up until recently, you could hit somebody else's S3 endpoint, no auth, and get 403's that would charge them 10s of thousands of dollars. Coudnt even firewall it. And no way to see, or anything. Number go up every 15-30 minutes in cost dashboard.
Real responsibility is 'I have 100$ a month for cloud compute'. Give me a easy way to view it, and shut down if I exceed that. That's real responsibility, that Scamazon, Azure, Google - none of them 'permit'.
They (and well, you) instead say "you can build some shitty clone of the functionality we should have provided, but we would make less money".
Oh, and your lambda job? That too costs money. It should not cost more money to detect and stop stuff on 'too much cost' report.
This should be a default feature of cloud: uncapped costs, or stop services
Perhaps requiring support for bill capping is the right way to go, but honestly I don’t see why providers don’t compete at all here. Customers would flock to any platform with something like “You set a budget and uptime requirements, we’ll figure out what needs to be done”, with some sort of managed auto-adjustment and a guarantee of no overage charges.
Ah well, one can only dream.
Because the types of customers that make them the most money don't care about any of this stuff. They'll happily pay whatever AWS (or other cloud provider) charges them, either because "scale" or because the decision makers don't realize there are better options for them. (And depending on the use case, sometimes there aren't.)
Then the goal would be to set the resource limits to something you are happy with.
Yes, this is a pain in the ass to set up and AWS will probably never implement this, but it is the correct solution.
I made it clear that you ask the user to choose between 'accept risk of overrun and keep running stuff', 'shut down all stuff on exceeding $ number', or even a 'shut down these services on exceeding number', or other possible ways to limit and control costs.
The cloud companies do not want to permit this because they would lose money over surprise billing.