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DEMO CONTROLS

AWS environment

Ready when you demo. Off when you’re done.

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Reading the server’s current state.

AUTO-OFF30 minutes idle

Only an accepted AWS AI request resets the timer.

MONTHLY TARGET$10 USD

Planning target · Not an enforced billing cap

AWS-REPORTED BILLING

Costs & credits

This month · before credits—After credits: unavailable
Running usage total—Recorded months only
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Monthly breakdown · USD
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Credit activities

    All AWS regions in this account. Billing is delayed and can be revised; $0 reported does not mean recent activity was free. These figures are not a final invoice or a hard spending cap.

    Saved model evaluations

    Recorded model calls and inspection evidence.

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    What does turning it off do?

    Off blocks new requests and deletes this session’s AWS Lambda worker, runtime role, CloudWatch log group and shutdown schedule. The site reports Off only after it verifies those resources are absent. Requests already running may finish.

    After 30 idle minutes, cleanup starts automatically. An AWS-side timer works even if this Mac is offline. AWS scheduling and deletion take time; this is not an instant billing cutoff. The last 90 seconds of a session are reserved for shutdown.

    On recreates the lab from its saved template. Website conversations and synthetic data remain on this Mac. Deployment IAM permissions and CloudFormation metadata remain in AWS, without a running workload. This setup creates no EC2 servers, NAT gateways, disks or public IP addresses.

    The control manages only this lab’s tagged AWS resources in its configured account and region. Unrelated resources, direct model calls and previously incurred charges are outside its scope. The $10 figure is a target, not an account-wide spending cap.

    Your website, local assistants, GCP assistant and saved demo evidence stay available.

    These controls manage AWS infrastructure. AWS chat uses the worker while On. Cisco AWS cloud-inventory onboarding remains separate.