Beware Scaling on AWS in Early Days
During my first month on AWS, I used AWS Batch a lot.<p>AWS decided to bill me mid-month (for more than I utilized I should add) even though the cycle ends on the 31st.<p>The transaction failed. Instead of contacting me to resolve the issue, AWS completely locked me out of the account. Card is also now locked due to &quot;fraud.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve been trying to resolve this for a week now (closer to 3 weeks if you include quota-related tickets). It&#x27;s Friday, and I have a demo with a Fortune 100 company next week. In order to get results for this demo, I need to run a lot of Batch jobs - not great.<p>I shudder to think about what would happened if this had been a launch with paid customers.<p>From their perspective, I get that crypto miners probably sign up and cancel their credit cards, but I was just using the cloud as intended. I had multiple tickets related to resource quotas that explained why I was using the cloud.