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That is pretty cool. I tend to default to AWS, luckily not too expensive for my side projects (about $15/month) - nothing accessible to the public though so my
by Insanity 2y ago
That is pretty cool. I tend to default to AWS, luckily not too expensive for my side projects (about $15/month) - nothing accessible to the public though so my cost is relatively predictable.
That said, I do wish you could hard shutdown at a certain budget limit.. but guess that is not in AWS’s best interested.
- darthrupert 2y agoWould contacting one's credit card union to deny the billing work as a kind of a hard shutdown?
- cmeacham98 2y agoNo - most cloud providers are postpaid, you use their services and then get a bill at the end of the month. Making your payment method invalid doesn't absolve you of this debt and will just result in being sent to collections and/or sued if the total is large enough.
- rectang 2y agoThe worst case for a traffic spike on some hard-limited service is the service becoming unavailable. The worst case for a traffic spike on an unlimited service is financial calamity.
- grav 2y agoIt is possible, since spending has an API. I’ve recently implemented it on Azure for a company, to ensure our storage costs didn’t run wild. Couldn’t find an out-of-the-box solution, maybe, as you say because it’s not in their interest.
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