Open switch180 opened 3 years ago
My customer left the lab running and it charged around 10K
I have a few suggestions to help avoid it.
1) Add the billing alarm to the DDB CFN, also, add a step to enable the billing metric before running the CFN - some docs below https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/quickref-cloudwatch.html#cloudwatch-sample-billing-alarm https://github.com/pyraven/cloudformation_sms_alarm
2) or, create the CFN with lower RCU/WCU, and allow the user to decide the number, so there is no excuse that they don't know it is going to cost a fortune.
Issue: Tables are left scaled up after stack deletion. We have banners in the lab explaining the importance of deleting DDB tables, but these aren't foolproof.
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