Agreed, AWS make pricing deliberately difficult to control.
Check out budget actions, you can set that to stop EC2s on certain thresholds. Not perfects but can help. Also if you can use parameter store instead of secrets manager, you can save a bunch of money there too.



I don’t get it. I’m not seeing the same thing, and I can’t find any reference of anyone else reporting the same issue online either. Either this isn’t an accurate report, or it’s some very specific A/B testing. I can’t find any options in settings that mention this functionality either.