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Are there cloud services that allow to easily put a maximum budget, to make sure you have no surprise costs like that?
by TacticalCoder 5y ago
Are there cloud services that allow to easily put a maximum budget, to make sure you have no surprise costs like that?
- snovv_crash 5y agoGoogle App Engine allows you to set up hard spending caps, after which your application will start returning 503s
- napolux 5y agoIn my experience you can only setup billing alerts, which are fair, if you ask me. I took a good course on pluralsight about AWS and the first lesson was to setup a billing alert. What will hard limits will do to your infra? You can't take down / suspend DBs, EC2s, etc... Just because you set a 1k USD limit and that's it. Alerts are the 1st thing you should setup IMHO
- notreallyserio 5y ago> You can't take down / suspend DBs, EC2s, etc... Just because you set a 1k USD limit and that's it. You (the cloud provider) can shut down VMs, block access to all services, and just retain the content in storage until the bill is resolved or the account is permanently closed. The cost would be trivial as storage is dirt cheap.
- napolux 5y agoSure, but will they do that? It's easier to just charge people. :P AFAIK Heroku shuts down your stuff if your Dynos are overspending :P