Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
Just to be clear: This service is offered by Amazon&#x2F;AWS themselves, it isn&#x27;t a third party. That&#x27;s a question I had when I first clicked, which is why I am answering it here.<p>One big &quot;gotcha&quot; for AWS newbies which I cannot tell if this addresses: Does this set or allow the user to set a cost ceiling?<p>AWS have offered billing alerts since forever. They&#x27;ll also occasionally refund unexpected expenses (one time thing). But they&#x27;ve never offered a hard &quot;suspend my account&quot; ceiling that a lot of people with limited budgets have asked for.<p>They claim this is a competitor for Digital Ocean, but with DO what they say they charge is what they actually charge. I&#x27;m already seeing looking through the FAQ various ways for this to exceed the supposed monthly charges listed on the homepage (and no way to stop that).<p>Why even offer a service like this if you cannot GUARANTEE that the $5 they say they charge is all you&#x27;ll ever get charged? How is this different from AWS if a $5 VPS can cost $50, or $500?<p>That&#x27;s what Amazon is missing. People want ironclad guarantees about how much this can cost under any and all circumstances. I&#x27;d welcome an account suspend instead of bill shock.