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> probably costs them tens or even hundreds of millions in lost revenue every year from developers being cautious about deploying things to their services I se
by jasonlotito 5y ago
> probably costs them tens or even hundreds of millions in lost revenue every year from developers being cautious about deploying things to their services
I see this as a good thing. They literally encourage you to be cautious with your pricing and resource usage, to the point where they put limits on what resources you can use without explicitly asking for more.
Developers should be cautious and aware.
- ghaff 5y agoI'm not sure it's a good thing. But open-ended charges come up a lot. AWS, like the other big public cloud providers, doubtless have self-interested reasons for letting people run up the meter. But they're probably also hesitant to add cut-offs that could end up being footguns in a production context to bring down services in complex infrastructures. People just playing around should be careful. There are ways to keep risk lower. But if absolute price caps are your priority you should probably be using a VPS of some sort.