I always find it amazing when large and very profitable companies such as Amazon resort to tactics like this to extract money from their customers.
Amazon Web Services dark patterns
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Like everything involved with AWS, the free tier itself is very confusing. It has many product categories, some of which are "Free Trials", some "12 months free" (isn't that a trial?), and some "Always free". In my case, however, it didn't really matter, because I wasn't planning to use it for 1 month, much less 12 months. On April 17, I signed up for AWS. The initial email said:
Welcome to Amazon Web Services. Thank you for creating an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. For the next 12 months, you'll have free access to all AWS services within the limits of the Free Tier. Fortunately, I was able to reproduce my customer's issue (metrics weren't appearing in the management console), which I fixed in my source code the next day, April 18. Mission accomplished, I then stopped using AWS. The fix was released in StopTheMadness Pro version 6.0 on April 28. All's well that ends well, right?
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