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Charged at a flat rate like the cost of a Digital Ocean $5/mo instance, would developers pay for such a service to provide automated notifications of service ov
by sah2ed 9y ago
Charged at a flat rate like the cost of a Digital Ocean $5/mo instance, would developers pay for such a service to provide automated notifications of service overages for all the major cloud providers?
All a developer needs to do immediately after adding a credit card to AWS/Azure/GCP would be to create an IAM role with permission to automatically add and track fine-grained billing alarms and notify via email/sms for any potential billing overages.
I think a $60/yr service like this would be useful to protect against future events of bill shock.
- 21 9y agoAzure has a feature on their trial account that when you hit your free limit, you can either: a) go into credit (so they will charge you at end of month) b) disable services Maybe AWS/Google also support a hard limit on spending.
- autotune 9y agoLooks like it's already been done, at least for AWS, based on a few Google results (not that I've used/tested any of these): https://github.com/Teevity/ice https://github.com/Teevity/ice https://billgist.com/ https://billgist.com/ http://cloudcheckr.com/ http://cloudcheckr.com/
- coldcode 9y agoI looked at Lambda (we use AWS a lot at work) and decided to simply stay with a flat rate DO server. I know what it costs, no need to worry.