I (student) accidentally ran out of AWS credits. What can I do?

Question

Basically I was testing different services with my credits and suddenly I see this upcoming bill will be $200. Sure this seems not a lot. But I think it's quite hefty as there was no warning that my credits ran out.

detaro · Accepted Answer

Contact support and ask nicely. AWS is often quite reasonable about at least partially forgiving small charges in such cases.

rozenmd · Answer

Tweet at https://twitter.com/AWSSupport, they tend to refund/undo large bills when people get bill shock.

reputet · Answer

Hello hoerzu,I think this might help to avoid such cases in the future:Setting a monthly cost budget with a fixed target amount to track all costs associated with your account. You can choose to be alerted for both actual (after accruing) and forecasted (before accruing) spends.https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2...

neopba · Answer

Depends what you are using those credits for. Can you do the same with Google cloud credits?