The AWS cleanup checklist I wish someone had given me when I was starting out with cloud. I talk to computer science students regularly. There’s one fear that comes up more than almost anything else: “I am worried about spinning up stuff in the cloud and charges getting out of control.” I used to feel this. Some time ago, I set up a relational database on RDS, some virtual machines as EC2 instances, an S3 bucket to upload some data. After I was done, I deleted everything on the AWS console. Dele...