Re:How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
by brianwawok on Monday May 27, 2019 @09:43AM
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On the flip side I would never want my real business to shut off. Hobby project yes! Real business no,
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Re:How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
by donmcronald on Monday May 27, 2019 @04:34PM
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AFAIK it's already considered a best practice to set up separate accounts for development and production (https://blog.codeship.com/separate-aws-production-and-develo...). Having a hard cap on an account dedicated to development would help a lot IMO.
Assuming your revenue and your AWS bill are strongly correlated, I agree. However, when a free service or a bug can increase costs by orders of magnitude without a corresponding increase in revenue your choices are to eat it (not sustainable, for most of us), throttle, or stop. Throttling is hard, so stopping is often the best choice.
Re:How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
by brianwawok on Monday May 27, 2019 @10:03PM
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Disagree there, for a paid business.
If my business had 100k in revenue per month. Normal cloud spend is 2k per month.. some glitch made spend go to 2k a day. That sucks, and I hope I have good alerts to catch it within a day or two.. but telling my customers "screw you, bill messed up" for however long it took me to sort out the bug? I would not do that.