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> you'll knock them offline for a given billing cycle Er... Because caps can never be raised mid-cycle?

• dredmorbius 14y ago
  Sure, they could be, but it's still a pretty blunt alerting system. Depending on the organization, though, you'd have to get purchase approval on the overage, etc. That will depend on specifics. Makes for sticky questions to answer there as well, which is another argument for putting better management tools at the cloud level.
  • nknight 14y ago
    You're making this way more complicated than it needs to be. It's not an alerting system, it's a knob, like a thermostat. I turn the knob where I want it, the system follows the "run until this limit is hit" instruction. If I want to change my mind later, even after the limit is hit and the system shuts down, I can make that decision at that time. I don't want the system or anybody else to make it for me. As for the "purchase approval" nonsense -- if the knob isn't right for your company, then don't use it, but there are a huge number of companies where the guy turning the knob is the one and only person with any say over money being spent at all.