The morning AWS billed the world a trillion dollars
Inside the July 2026 AWS billing bug: fake trillion-dollar estimates, real panic-deleted projects, and the 2-minute check that separates a real bill from a fake one. Interactive.
10 AWS mistakes that quietly inflate your bill
The ten default settings and forgotten resources that silently run up your AWS bill, with the real 2026 numbers and the one-line fix for each.
The $34,000 AWS bill that almost ended a startup
A misconfigured Cloudflare worker triggered millions of API calls over 8 days. Here is what happened and how to prevent it.
How to set up AWS billing alerts that actually work
AWS Budgets alerts are better than nothing. Here is how to set them up properly and why you still need more.
The complete guide to AWS Cost Explorer
Everything you need to know about reading and understanding your AWS Cost Explorer data.
I left a GPU instance running for 3 weeks
An honest account of how a forgotten EC2 p3 instance cost one developer $8,500 and what they learned.
AWS IAM roles explained for developers
A plain English guide to creating secure, minimal-permission IAM roles for your applications.
Top 10 ways developers accidentally overspend on AWS
From forgotten instances to data transfer costs, the most common AWS billing mistakes and how to avoid them.