Comment by tonyhart7
1 day ago
"Why do I need to provide payment method to sign up if I’m on the free plan?"
its also to prevent abuse, from people making a mass account only abusing free tier
1 day ago
"Why do I need to provide payment method to sign up if I’m on the free plan?"
its also to prevent abuse, from people making a mass account only abusing free tier
yep and you can use aws itself for stuff like billing alerts -> automation to shut things down...
also the free tier is generous because they want attract potential customer, if that offering is "too much burden" then they would axe it
they probably think that 1 year service that you can use rarely is too good