How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (2013)

Re:How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (2013) by phodge on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:58PM (#19548153)

Loosely related - this is what terrifies me about deploying to cloud services like Google which have no hard limit on monthly spend - if background jobs get stuck in an infinite loop using 100% CPU while I'm away camping, my fledgling business could be bankrupt by the time I get phone signal back.

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Re:How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (2013) by Bartweiss on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:03PM (#19548202)

Woah, how does Google Cloud still not support budget capping?

It has budget alerting, so the capabilities are obviously there, but it's never been added. Instead, there's just a vaguely insulting guide on writing a script to catch the alert and trigger a shutdown...

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Re:How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (2013) by shawabawa3 on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:41PM (#19548602)

Pretty sure Google cloud does support it

Pretty sure aws still doesn't

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Re:How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (2013) by Bartweiss on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:08PM (#19555614)

Google App Engine has spending cutoffs. Cloud allows API call cutoffs, but for actual spend it only has alerts. Their 'controlling budget' page sends you to a guide on writing your own triggers to respond to those alerts:

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets

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Re:How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (2013) by jeremydavid on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:22PM (#19548393)

You can set maximum spend limits :)

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