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Also the billing alerts is just that an alert. They should have something in place to put a hard cap on monthly spend. That way his free website would go offlin

Also the billing alerts is just that an alert. They should have something in place to put a hard cap on monthly spend. That way his free website would go offline when he's spent > $X. As you say they make it hard deliberately. Edit: Turn out Azure have this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/spending-limit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billi...

fendy3002 5y ago
Eh after skimming it I feel like there's still gotchas with it. Not every account can turn it on and looks like there aren't custom limit. CMIIW, it'll be my first cloud provider if I can set one.
danuker 5y ago
I see there is a spending limit for the "intro" or "preview" plans designed for students, Visual Studio users, and resellers (the "hook" part in "hook, line, and sinker"). Not for actual cloud usage, like an actual pay-as-you-go plan where this would be useful. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/offer-details/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/offer-detail...
- ghaff 5y ago
  Yeah, there are trial accounts and things but as far as I know, none of the big cloud providers have a way to say "Under no circumstances are you to charge me for than $X per month even if it means shutting down services."
- Dave3of5 5y ago
  Yeah I see that too I'll add that to my comment tbh I think what I said still stand it's been made hard or maybe said a different way is: It's very easy to overspend on these big cloud providers Oh I can't edit the comment now oh well sorry if I've confused anyone.
- Monotoko 5y ago
  A lot of Chinese cloud providers like Aliyun will only allow pay and go, because there’s no way to recursively bill My own instances go down all the time when I forget to ‘top up’ the account
Ostrogodsky 5y ago
I dont understand why not all online metered providers are forced by law to do this.
- lazide 5y ago
  Pretty sure fixing deeply technical business to business transparent-but-potentially-terrible pricing models are pretty far down the priority list on things that will get them re-elected right now (not even counting campaign donations). Contract dispute cases might clarify it, but probably not in the direction any of us is hoping.
GordonS 5y ago
And the alerts are not instant, at least with Azure - they run reports every 24H or so, and execute alerts every 24H or so. So even if you're careful, you can still be on the hook for a couple of days' worth of spend - which could be very expensive.

fendy3002 5y ago

Eh after skimming it I feel like there's still gotchas with it. Not every account can turn it on and looks like there aren't custom limit. CMIIW, it'll be my first cloud provider if I can set one.

danuker 5y ago

I see there is a spending limit for the "intro" or "preview" plans designed for students, Visual Studio users, and resellers (the "hook" part in "hook, line, and sinker"). Not for actual cloud usage, like an actual pay-as-you-go plan where this would be useful. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/offer-details/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/offer-detail...

ghaff 5y ago
Yeah, there are trial accounts and things but as far as I know, none of the big cloud providers have a way to say "Under no circumstances are you to charge me for than $X per month even if it means shutting down services."
Dave3of5 5y ago
Yeah I see that too I'll add that to my comment tbh I think what I said still stand it's been made hard or maybe said a different way is: It's very easy to overspend on these big cloud providers Oh I can't edit the comment now oh well sorry if I've confused anyone.
Monotoko 5y ago
A lot of Chinese cloud providers like Aliyun will only allow pay and go, because there’s no way to recursively bill My own instances go down all the time when I forget to ‘top up’ the account

Ostrogodsky 5y ago

I dont understand why not all online metered providers are forced by law to do this.

lazide 5y ago
Pretty sure fixing deeply technical business to business transparent-but-potentially-terrible pricing models are pretty far down the priority list on things that will get them re-elected right now (not even counting campaign donations). Contract dispute cases might clarify it, but probably not in the direction any of us is hoping.

GordonS 5y ago

And the alerts are not instant, at least with Azure - they run reports every 24H or so, and execute alerts every 24H or so. So even if you're careful, you can still be on the hook for a couple of days' worth of spend - which could be very expensive.