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This is great feedback, and initially I had a calculator for this. We removed it because we felt it would be intuitive but you're right we built it and it's eas
by bthornbury 9y ago
This is great feedback, and initially I had a calculator for this. We removed it because we felt it would be intuitive but you're right we built it and it's easy to lose that outside perspective.
It's really just the running time of your program (you control this) plus a less than a second of setup / tear down time. If your job is set to consume 1GB that's it, you've consumed that many GB-seconds. If it's a 128MB job, then you've only consumed 1/8th of that many GB-seconds.
Let me know if this example is getting it across, it's a simplified version of the pricing of other serverless platforms.
- slig 9y agoAny plans to have pre-paid credits?
- bthornbury 9y agoHey, we could do this but I'm curious why you would prefer this? More solid payment expectations?
- d2xdy2 9y agoPerhaps. One of the things I sort of like about Twilio is that they can do "credits" and I have the option to only pay for a certain amount.
- xkcd-sucks 9y agoFor me to evaluate something, the amount I'll be billed must have an upper bound that I control. So yes, more solid payment expectations.
- tedmiston 9y agoSame ^ I really need to guarantee controlling unbounded costs. I would think most people have similar expectations.
- Sohcahtoa82 9y agoBecause I'd hate for a bug in my code to result in an accidental infinite loop at 2 AM and then wake up to a $1,000 bill. I'd rather pre-pay and have my task get killed if I run out of credit.
- Bombthecat 9y agoIn Germany almost no one owns a normal credit card.
- bthornbury 9y agoHow do you usually purchase things online?
- detaro 9y agoDirect debit, invoice + debit transfer, PayPal are all fairly common options in Germany (+ a bunch of smaller services, + the option of handing the payment to the delivery person, but that's fairly expensive, so I assume it's not used all that often despite being often available)