We have a traditional cluster, and we were asked to investigate cloud usage. Ended up with a bursting type setup where you can use the cloud to spin up more no

We have a traditional cluster, and we were asked to investigate cloud usage. Ended up with a bursting type setup where you can use the cloud to spin up more nodes than we have in our cluster, or larger nodes than we have available. Sounds great. Works okay. The problem was with billing. Our traditional cluster has been around for a while, upgraded and added on to, and there is a bit of a handshake agreement over who pays how much, based on usage. Every year or two the company departments get together and either ask for less cost or take on more based on usage stats. Each of them pay a fixed cost per year. With the cloud setup, every job came back with charges from our cloud provider. User C consumed 48 hours of usage with 150 nodes of type Z. That will be $900. After just a few short months they asked us to turn that capability off.