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Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way by Terretta on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:50PM (#14983454)
Use EC2, set an auto scaling threshold on CPU utilization, do something dumb, you’ll find you ran “a server” x n.

It’s easy to burn tens or hundreds of thousands ‘accidentally’ on “server”, easier than on serverless.

If you’re spending real money, you should have an account team. Talk to them if such a problem happens.

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Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way by bmelton on Thursday August 10, 2017 @10:55PM (#14986260)
> If you’re spending real money, you should have an account team. Talk to them if such a problem happens

The colloquialism for "real money", at least to me, is "a substantial sum". If that's what you intended, wouldn't it make sense that you wouldn't have an account team if the only time you spent real money was by accident?

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Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way by vacri on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:59PM (#14984736)
An autoscaling group has a max spend of '"a server" x n', where you set what n is. Autoscaling groups don't keep adding servers forever.
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