Whilst indulging in my usual bout of cross-trainer ( #GymOClock ), I checked my emails and saw one purportedly from Amazon Web Services (AWS), suggesting that I owed them $56.31.
Being a cautious type, I did NOT click on the links in the email, but instead logged into my AWS dashboard: -
and navigated across to the Billing Dashboard: -
Lo and behold, there was a pukka invoice for October 2017, detailing the costs: -
I'd spun up a pair of RHEL VMs in early October, along with a HTTPS load balancer, in order to replicate a client's environment.
And then semi-forgotten about them ….
To be fair, I did have problems logging back into AWS, due to verification emails not getting through someone's spam filters, but …..
I forgot.
I've since shut down the VMs, so November's bill shouldn't be quite so high :-)
The moral of the story, nothing is free in life - apart from air :-)
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