Junior dev racks up $60K AWS Bill

I'd suggest this: https://github.com/banzaicloud/aws-billing-alarm

Setting up billing alarms should be part of any AWS account setup checklist. Don't wait for the bill.

Digging through that thread the poor OP was grossly negligent in more than a few ways:

- Set up this company task under his own AWS account, with his OWN credit card.

- Saw the first bill at ~9000 USD had failed to process and deleted the email from amazon...

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It seems AWS is letting him off the hook though, as probably no real resources were consumed, and he was able to show it was not intentional.

But "Junior" is phrasing it lightly.

Other than behaviour, are they self identified as a junior dev, or is the title just kinda being a jerk?

You'd be surprised how easily this happens.

Cost controls are scarce sadly.