The alerts don&#x27;t work too great. I wrote this in response to a previous story:<p>&quot;I actually had a billing alert set, and I did get an alert, but it looked like this:
&quot;You are receiving this email because your estimated charges are greater than the limit you set for the alarm &quot;awsbilling-AWS-Service-Charges-total&quot; in AWS Account XXXXXXXX.
The alarm limit you set was $ 10.00 USD. Your total estimated charges accrued for this billing period are currently $ 1050.95 USD as of Saturday 18 July, 2015 17:34:36 UTC.&quot;
So, it came a bit too late to take action.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10024958" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10024958</a>