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hinata08 41 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to...

AWS and Azure stress on spending limits you can set for each card... in their documentation !

Some gen AI and ML folks seem to see a way out to make things without reading any doc or scientific literature. Gen AI is a pretty clever bit of computing, but not witchcraft yet

ramblurr 41 days ago [–]

That is false for AWS. There are no spending limits that stop usage and cost after some threshold.

hinata08 41 days ago | [–]

oh my bad, thanks for the info

AWS Budget can mostly notify you indeed, and terminating instances from that isn't as straightforward as on Azure

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