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Author is an ex-Googler so he knew exactly how to speak to the system

• bjarneh 6y ago
  I'm sure that was an important factor, but wouldn't this in any case just be a bill to a startup with no money on hand? It's hard to make companies (without money) economically responsible for anything I guess, it even seems hard to make companies with money responsible sometimes.
  • donmcronald 6y ago
    I can’t set a limit like that on my CC, so the first charge for $5k would have cleared meaning it would have run way longer and racked up way more usage. I’d bet you my computer I would have been out at least the $5k that cleared.
    • bjarneh 6y ago
      You're probably correct. It really makes you think twice about setting up some of those cloud services without a hard limit cutoff.
      • Symbiote 6y ago
        I normally receive only my "part" of my corporate credit card statement, but earlier this year I was sent more of it. That's when I found out the card has a credit limit of over €50,000. Reading this, I wonder if we should contact the bank and ask for another card with a lower limit, to use with various cloud services. We are 99% on-premises, but have about €200/month in various GCS/AWS usage.
        • bjarneh 6y ago
          Cannot hurt to lower that limit, after reading this post all those cloud services start to look bad....