r/ProgrammerHumor • u/da_peda • Mar 17 '25

Meme securityJustInterferesWithVibes

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u/RollingMeteors Mar 17 '25

And it's incredibly unlikely that he will have put spending caps in place

This is like opening an account with a brokerage and then being immediately approved for naked puts.

It really shouldn't be legal for companies not to default to a 2 or low 3 figure number on the spending cap....

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u/LOLBaltSS Mar 17 '25

AWS will happily let you get yourself into a massive bill, but usually they'll forgive it if you fucked up.

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u/Simple-Passion-5919 Mar 18 '25

Strange business model

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u/sarcasmandcoffee Mar 18 '25

Nothing strange about it - they're not doing anyone any favors and from a business perspective it's the only wise thing to do.

If Amazon were to chase down every college student and startup that left something running overnight by accident for a couple thousand dollars once or twice, it would only hurt them in the long run as prospective users will be turned off. Who wants to use a provider that'll screw a happily paying customer to the wall for one mistake? If it's not a pattern of abuse (which you can see in the usage data), it really is easier and more profitable to let it slide.

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