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It would, of course, be just mean and unscrupulous for a cloud vendor to look at the number you have set as being ‘the absolute most I am willing to pay for thi
by jameshart 2y ago
It would, of course, be just mean and unscrupulous for a cloud vendor to look at the number you have set as being ‘the absolute most I am willing to pay for this service’ and then optimize their pricing offer to you specifically to make sure they go right up to that line and no further.
- moring 2y agoI didn't mean to imply that. A hard limit at X that stays inactive <X, and at >X, leaves you with a bill of X and an outage is the easiest approach from a technical side: Terminate the service when X is reached, and bill exactly what was provided. It is something you would instantly come up with when asked to implement a cost limit, and you don't for a second put yourself in the customer's position. Of course cloud vendors do put themselves in the customer's position, and that's why they say that customers would not be happy with a limit, even though they are asking for it.