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When working in the cloud and automating systems, variable pricing scares me. Some providers offer predictable pricing, but the more cloud/variable/auto-scale/s
by 8organicbits 4y ago
When working in the cloud and automating systems, variable pricing scares me. Some providers offer predictable pricing, but the more cloud/variable/auto-scale/serverless you go, the harder it is to predict. Sometimes it's better to fail than to get a huge bill.
If you don't have a billing alarm setup, stop reading HN and add one now.
- ghaff 4y agoAnd alarms only go so far. I understand that for revenue-producing production workloads, stop spending money vs. burn everything down isn't always an obvious decision. But, for for many personal workload cases, I absolutely want to stop spending money above a certain level no questions asked.
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