It's downright criminal how universities and other courses encourage or force students to set up private AWS accounts.
AWS is for companies, period. It should never be used by a private individual. If it were designed for private individuals, they would have implemented hard limits on the free tier rather than their laughable billing alerts.
You should never use it for coursework or side projects: the danger is too high.
@danjac Azure has a student tier for exactly that use case. There's no credit card required, the worst you can do is accidentally empty your account and be unable to participate in the rest of the course, and even that can be remedied by the professor somehow I think.
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