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On AWS, I sign up to be billed at per gigabyte. I don't sign up for a 100 GB bandwidth bucket and at 101 GB AWS automatically upgrades me to the 1000 GB bucket.
by Hamuko 6y ago
On AWS, I sign up to be billed at per gigabyte. I don't sign up for a 100 GB bandwidth bucket and at 101 GB AWS automatically upgrades me to the 1000 GB bucket.
- nicoburns 6y agoAWS has exactly the same problem with not allowing you to limit spend. And lots of individuals and small businesses are uncomfortable with using it for that reason.
- searchableguy 6y agoYeah, google cloud provides a page to programatically cap your spending: https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/notify#cap_disable_billing_to_stop_usage https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/notify#cap_disa... Why don't they just provide a big red button to enable caps instead?
- londons_explore 6y ago> Why don't they just provide a big red button to enable caps instead? So many companies have departmental budgets and need the ability to guarantee a bill not more than $X. It seems crazy GCP doesn't have a budget limit option. In fact, AppEngine used to have a budget limit option, and they've just removed it!
- graham_paul 6y ago> AppEngine used to have a budget limit option, and they've just removed it! awful behaviour!
- Wronnay 6y agoLooks like there is someone stealing identities, Mr Graham ^^
- graham_paul 6y agoAre you saying that there is only one person legally allowed to be called Graham Paul in the whole planet?
- dutchmartin 6y agoWell, letting customers spend money on their platform earns them money
- searchableguy 6y agoThat's true but in this instance, you can set up a max cap limit after which there would be no cap limit. I don't think google will gain much from trying to fish students and small businesses for, say $250.
- ivanstojic 6y agoDoesn't this do what you are referring to? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/budgets-managing-costs.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2...
- zxcvbn4038 6y agoThat just sends you an alert when your spend reaches certain points, it doesn’t stop you from exceeding it, and there is a one day delay while they reconcile usage. Most people wouldn’t want to stop operating completely even if they exceed a budget so it’s really more for monitoring. People who do want that are probably better off renting a server for a fixed cost - plenty of places still do that. Cloud makes more sense if you are growing rapidly or have short term needs for significant increases in computing power. At some point after that cloud stops making sense and it becomes cheaper again to host your own infrastructure.