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They should go talk to Azure then, because Azure for Students gives you $100 per year. The second you hit that $100, it kills everything. I’m not saying it wou
by easton 5y ago
They should go talk to Azure then, because Azure for Students gives you $100 per year. The second you hit that $100, it kills everything.
I’m not saying it would be simple, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a global monthly billing maximum where it’ll nuke the account at that number. There’s lots of new developers that are probably too scared of the free tier to use it without something like that (I have AWS experience, and I don’t use it for personal stuff specifically because that doesn’t exist. Which means I probably won’t tell my employer to use it either).
- Godel_unicode 5y agoYou have to see how that's both totally different and a terrible idea for a business, right? If anything the existence of hard limited student accounts combined with the fact that support always* refunds giant surprise bills underscores the point that caps for business accounts don't exist because of the damage they could do.
- pyrale 5y ago> and a terrible idea for a business Surely it's the customer's role to decide whether or not it is a bad idea? How 'bout you run a non-profit and have an allocation to run the services, would you prefer your nonprofit to lose the website for a couple days, or for it to go bankrupt? What if you run a company for which online presence is a means of advertising and not the revenue-generating platform, would you prefer to run your advertising campaigns on a budget or without limits? And so on.
- whoknowswhat11 5y agoI do like this idea, but for their bigger customers a cap where billing (and services) all stop is not what customers are asking for. Instead they are asking for durability / resilience / object locks etc. I'm serious, what large businesses wants to lose EVERYTHING (all static IP's, all glacier and S3 data, all database and compute) over a billing issue.