> AWS should provide features where you are prompted to set a hard budget limit when you first signup and services fail once that's exceeded
They should, but the entire internal metering & bill generation pipeline isn't setup to support that. You can configure billing alerts but these will only refresh on updates to your estimated bill (typically re-computed every 8hrs). And since service teams are responsible for posting metering records to commerce platform their implementation may vary.
For exactly the same reasons, Amazon limits message retentions on it's internal Slack platform and aggressively enforces mailbox quotas in it's internal email system.
Up to some shady shenanigans, and don't have to hand it over as part of discovery if they don't got the record in the first place. Exactly the same way criminal gangs operate!
I actually built 'Tembo - Bilingual Stories' while learning German myself, so hate to plug it on this thread, but we've got lots of German content, maybe you'll find something that interests you?
Then can I shamelessly plug Tembo - Bilingual Stories (iOS/Android) to you. We offer audiobooks for some of our titles, so you can listen and learn simultaneously. It's a big undertaking to editing them all in-house, but we have audiobooks available for about 30 stories across our courses.
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...