Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6

Re:Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster managem... by ak217 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @09:52PM (#22490516)

Both AWS and Google offer free tier products and pay-for-what-you-use products. Reserved instance pricing starts at around $25/year. Many other incredibly useful products (S3, Lambda, VPC, etc.) are free with an instance or start at $0.

You can set billing alerts that will project your monthly budget every hour, and send you an alert when it's projected to be exceeded.

IMHO your claim (that there is an entry cost barrier) is the opposite of reality. AWS and Google have brought incredible power and choice to developers starting at zero initial cost.

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Re:Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster managem... by fluuuhi on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:20AM (#22492124)

My main concern is, that i can't define an upper limit. My billing alert is nice and im aware of it, but it doesn't help you if someone takes over your account, mines bitcoins on expensive machines and a day later you read your email.

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Re:Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster managem... by ak217 on Thursday March 05, 2020 @09:54AM (#22493958)

AWS refunds you when that happens.

The fundamental issue with setting a limit is it's technically infeasible to decide what to do when it's exceeded. They have no way of knowing what assets to terminate. The way to avoid what you describe is to shut off access to APIs that you don't want to use, and keep your credentials safe.

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Re:Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster managem... by pbalau on Friday March 06, 2020 @07:15AM (#22502979)

AWS has budgets that do exactly what you want. For the "cost budget": "Monitor your costs against a specified dollar amount and receive alerts when your user-defined thresholds are met."

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