Cost Management — Don't Blow Your Cloud Budget
Understand cloud pricing models, set up billing alerts, and keep your infrastructure costs predictable as your application grows.
There's a genre of horror story in the developer community: someone deploys an app, forgets about it, and gets a $72,000 AWS bill three months later. Or a misconfigured function runs in an infinite loop and racks up thousands of dollars in compute charges overnight. Or a database left open to the internet gets hammered by bots, and the egress costs are astronomical.
Cloud pricing is designed to scale with your usage, which is great when you're growing and terrifying when something goes wrong. For most vibe coders, costs are manageable if you understand the pricing model, set up guardrails, and catch runaway costs before they become a problem.
How Cloud Pricing Works
Most cloud services use one of three pricing models:
Pay-Per-Use
You pay for exactly what you consume. Zero usag
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