Stage 2 · Lesson 6 of 8
Pricing models and your first budget
Cloud are billed by the second, hour, GB or request by default. Committing to one or three years of usage buys a large discount, and spot capacity, spare capacity that can be taken back at short notice, is cheapest of all.
Before you build anything, create a with email alerts at small thresholds, such as 5 and 10 USD, so a forgotten resource shows up in a day rather than at the end of the month. A budget is an alarm, not a brake: it tells you, it does not switch things off.
Common trapbelieving a budget caps your spend and ignoring the resources it warns you about.
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