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That's fucking bonkers that nothing in the system could see this as unusual and worthy of throttling. The embarrassment of this -- that a company LITERALLY SELL

by patcon 6mo ago

That's fucking bonkers that nothing in the system could see this as unusual and worthy of throttling. The embarrassment of this -- that a company LITERALLY SELLING machine learning services and expertise -- cannot spot such a thing... This should have led them to deal with this internally and refund it. Just... Wow Google.

lukewarm707 6mo ago
there is no way to cap your billing on gcp. you can get notifications but that's it. i don't want to get throttled below my quota but some type of spend limit would be good.
- rvnx 6mo ago
  and the notifications can be delayed because the spending system is not updated in real-time, so even if you have a Cloud Task triggering on spending to disable the project it may be too slow and several thousands may already be spent.
- bombcar 6mo ago
  Is there a cloud provider that does have hard unbreakable billing caps? Everything I've seen has always been notifications or soft caps. Not talking about fixed-access things like a Hetzer box.
  - pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
    Bunny.net purports to have a pay-as-you-go prepaid credit system that sounds like it works the way people want, and with their description of the way it works probably being sufficient to be legally enforceable if it turns out that it actually works differently and you were to end up with a surprise bill from them. And evidently it really does work that way; see this post from a couple weeks ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676416> The only other provider known to work that way is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, which serves a completely different market segment (so much so that it might as well not even be considered the same kind of product/service).
trick-or-treat 6mo ago
This is GCP's revenue model, lol. Let's provide a (semi) generous free tier and trick people into accidentally going over it.
voidUpdate 6mo ago
The company selling machine learning services would probably love a €54k bonus
- owebmaster 6mo ago
  It's so funny seeing people thinking this is not by design

by patcon 6mo ago

lukewarm707 6mo ago

there is no way to cap your billing on gcp. you can get notifications but that's it. i don't want to get throttled below my quota but some type of spend limit would be good.

rvnx 6mo ago
and the notifications can be delayed because the spending system is not updated in real-time, so even if you have a Cloud Task triggering on spending to disable the project it may be too slow and several thousands may already be spent.
bombcar 6mo ago
Is there a cloud provider that does have hard unbreakable billing caps? Everything I've seen has always been notifications or soft caps. Not talking about fixed-access things like a Hetzer box.
- pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
  Bunny.net purports to have a pay-as-you-go prepaid credit system that sounds like it works the way people want, and with their description of the way it works probably being sufficient to be legally enforceable if it turns out that it actually works differently and you were to end up with a surprise bill from them. And evidently it really does work that way; see this post from a couple weeks ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676416> The only other provider known to work that way is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, which serves a completely different market segment (so much so that it might as well not even be considered the same kind of product/service).

trick-or-treat 6mo ago

This is GCP's revenue model, lol. Let's provide a (semi) generous free tier and trick people into accidentally going over it.

voidUpdate 6mo ago

The company selling machine learning services would probably love a €54k bonus

owebmaster 6mo ago
It's so funny seeing people thinking this is not by design