The cloud feels like a casino designed to fleece you. No way to set limits + no way to check your limit (via API). The price calculators are as complex as they

The cloud feels like a casino designed to fleece you. No way to set limits + no way to check your limit (via API). The price calculators are as complex as they can possibly be, just spin the wheel and hope for the best I guess. Price estimations for my instance in my month vary wildly from cents to over 1€. I just imagine what would happen if I actually spent money there and price estimations are 100€ per month when I check in the morning and then the next day for whatever reason x10 higher. Currently my supposedly free micro instance on GCP is projected to costing 1.50€ per month. Obviously I'm very greatful for free computing, that's very nice. It's actually the main reason I'm even entertaining using the cloud for things and bothering to try things out. My complaint isn't about that, it's about the fact that their stated cost isn't the actual cost. It does seem to actually cost something. No, not network costs. It says "E2 instance core" and "E2 instance ram". It will be very interesting to see whether I get an explanation for this and whether they will take the money. In the first month they already took a few cents for the 2-3 days I ran it. I don't know if irony is the right word but the GCP cost only has to go slightly higher and I can already switch off the cloud to a standard VM somewhere to have cheaper compute. Imagine that, I'm not a 100k/month spender like some here, I'm a free user and it's already almost cheaper for me to switch off the cloud.