Well, first I wouldn’t give a junior dev with no experience admin rights to an AWS account and would I have tight guardrails around what they can do - like I’ve done now with over a dozen implementations for clients since I’ve been in consulting for five years and the four years before that as an architect for product companies.

I also wouldn’t give a junior dev access to production databases.

Also from working with AWS from both the inside (Professional Services) and the outside at a third party consulting companies, I know how aggressively AWS is about keeping startups and they would never risk losing the continuing revenue of a company like that.

> All else being equal, would you rather choose the platform where a junior dev can accidentally incur a $1M bill

If a junior dev has the access to do that, then there is a big failure (probably more than one) by someone who isn't a junior dev after choosing AWS that was necessary to enable that.