“RTFM, dude!”, Or how free cheese cost me $ 5. And it could have been at $ 80 +


There are no complaints regarding AWS policies , of course. All of the following happened on their own rotozyozstvom. We warned you, ignorance of laws, etc.

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This short article about the need to be very careful about licenses and the rules for using cloud services and tools.



It all started simply - with an attempt to try to build your server somewhere in the cloud for inexpensive.


AWS Lightsail, , , — IP, . , SSD, . , , SSH ( web), , . . …


- , . . 'on demand' 750 free tier, - . , on demand .




Well, corresponded with tech support, financial service. Could write in Sportloto with the same success.


I can only say "uhh, I'm just lucky," because I could start the period on December 1, for example, and from January 1 for 31 days, until the bill came, I would run into $ 80 bucks from scratch.


Be careful friends! Read the rules, read the instructions twice, use a translator, try to understand the rules of the service. Many service providers will not disconnect you after the trial period, but will include a paid tariff by default, and then with luck.

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