I hear this all the time, people being surprised by an $80k bill when they're used to $5k. Step one of using any of these services, whether it's AWS, GCP, Azure

I hear this all the time, people being surprised by an $80k bill when they're used to $5k. Step one of using any of these services, whether it's AWS, GCP, Azure, etc. ENABLE BILLING ALERTS. You can be notified as soon as you're being charged x%, or $x over last months bill, or set your own amounts and hop on and investigate what's going on. Please set this up. If you don't have this on right now, stop what you're doing and turn it on. This is the first thing that I do any time I'm involved with a new infrastructure.