How do you protect yourself from unexpected usage charges - think aws/netlify?

On the side after work I've been experimenting a bit with aws cloud launching my own apps and website (its mostly for hobby/for fun not really expecting income but maybe one day) anyways, one of my website a couple months ago was hit by a bot attack which made my netlify monthly bill go from $20 to $140 in one day Which spooked me im not going to lie. And my knowledge of devops thing is so limited that I had to resort to asking ai to help debug this. We found that there was 8 million botted requests sent to my frontend website and on my .netify.app link netlify does not give you ddos protection unless you pay extra. My actual domain was protected by cloudfare rate limit I didnt even know I had this secondary domain for that website. Anyways that was useful discovery now I feel safer about netlify at least. I don't really want to give up this hobby. Is there anyway to get predictable billing I don't even mind if they shutdown my app if it exceeds usage. I read that fly.io is based on credit usage. Is that good for backend? submitted by /u/Ok_Indication_3656 [link] [留言]