I think I'll treat this as the latest in a several line of warnings about not going all-in on all these Cloud services until you seriously know what you're doin

I think I'll treat this as the latest in a several line of warnings about not going all-in on all these Cloud services until you seriously know what you're doing. So much of it is so unnecessary to begin with. You can do so much with a cheap VCS or two without thinking about lambdas or cloud functions or kubernetes or who knows what. But these days you'd be forgiven for thinking it's dark magic. You're not going to run up a 5 digit bill in a day by starting up on a few $10 VPSs. And you'll probably have an architecture that fits in your head to boot. Also: The article title should really be "Saved 72k and avoided bankruptcy by being an ex-Googler."