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I always wish you could kill switch a billing alert on any cloud service - so if it goes above my prescribed limit just take it offline

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Most support this (e.g. AWS's free tier, Microsoft's Monthly Student Credit), but intentionally won't let customers manually set it. It isn't an oversight that they don't offer this, it is an intentional choice.

I think this bad-choice backfires though. I spend less time learning Cloud Services because the risks without a hard-limit are too high.

There was no such thing as a “free tier” on AWS before July of this year. There were some services that allowed free usage either for the first $x months or free up to a certain amount every month indefinitely.

Now there is an actual free tier that won’t let you go over $250 on AWS.

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