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Why is nobody talking about what a shady business practice it is that cloud providers don't alert you to this kind of overage by default? Sure, you can set up
by Hobadee 1y ago
Why is nobody talking about what a shady business practice it is that cloud providers don't alert you to this kind of overage by default? Sure, you can set up alerts, but when you go 10x over your baseline in a short period of time, that should trigger an alert regardless of your configured alerts.
- firesteelrain 1y agoOr treat it like the stock market and shut it down.
- bee_rider 1y agoThey could compare against the baseline, I guess. In the grand scheme of things, $8k is not much money for a business, right? Like we can be pretty sure nobody at Google said “a-ha, if we don’t notify the users, we will be able sneak $8k out of their wallets at a time.” I think it is more likely that they don’t really care that much about this market, other than generally creating an environment where their products are well known.