How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure

Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by SloopJon on Sunday March 29, 2020 @12:17PM (#22720158)

I know it depends on the site/app, but for a hobbyist, what is the biggest gotcha in a "got super popular over night" situation? If I look at the quotas and overages for low-end plans from the following providers, e.g., it's not obvious to me where the realistic bottlenecks are:

* Firebase Hosting with Firestore

* Cloudflare Workers Sites (using KV)

* Netlify (possibly w/ FaunaDB)

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by ehsankia on Sunday March 29, 2020 @04:32PM (#22722442)

I'd rather my pet project returns 503 after going popular overnight than me footing a huge bill. Especially since my pet projects generally don't generate any revenue anyways. This is the most important feature for me and why I went with GCP.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by dannyw on Monday March 30, 2020 @12:43AM (#22725319)

You know what's going to be cheaper and simpler? Get some vultr VPSes. Maybe one for your web server and one for a PostgresDB, and another for a Redis if you need it.

Done. For 98% of hobbyist projects, a single Vultr $5/month node is probably far more than enough. For 99%, three Vultr $10/month instances (web, DB, cache) is probably enough.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by klohto on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:58AM (#22719025)

Billing alerts + Lambda. It's not two clicks, but there is plenty of CF templates.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by seanwilson on Sunday March 29, 2020 @12:16PM (#22720148)

The best solution to avoid huge accidental AWS bills due to mismanaging AWS services yourself is to manage your own AWS billing alert service?

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by nucleardog on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:19PM (#22720701)

Yes, because without them knowing where your infrastructure can be killed/what can be deleted in order to reduce costs without completely destroying your business there's no way for AWS to do this for you.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by seanwilson on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:46PM (#22720932)

> without them knowing where your infrastructure can be killed/what

So add an interface that will let you specify that somehow for common scenarios? There must be something better than zero help they can offer. Not everyone needs something that can autoscale to Google levels.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by thinkharderdev on Monday March 30, 2020 @10:18AM (#22728188)

I think the idea is that they do help you. They provide alerts and and APIs that can be used to programmatically control all of your infrastructure. So in a sense having a Lambda listen for billing events and respond in a way appropriate to your particular organization may be pretty close to the best solution.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by MattSayar on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:18PM (#22730624)

If your credit card bounces, I'm sure they'd have no problem killing your infrastructure

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by nucleardog on Monday March 30, 2020 @09:14PM (#22734050)

I'm sure at some point, but at that point you're no longer really their customer and I'm sure they're less worried about not completely destroying your work or livelihood.

I've actually had my payments on my personal account bounce once or twice and no, they did not.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by oefrha on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:01AM (#22719044)

Alerts are just alerts. I don’t and can’t monitor alerts 24/7.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by oceanbreeze83 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:14AM (#22719146)

The alert automatically calls a Lambda function which turns off all your services.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by amelius on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:36AM (#22719314)

Which puts a burden on the user because this needs to be tested. Also, it's not 100% safe because the user is still accountable.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by scarface74 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:49PM (#22720950)

Since when was a user being accountable a bad thing?

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by ape4 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:49AM (#22719439)

Or they could just offer a limit ;)

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by cutemonster on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:37AM (#22719326)

How do you auto test that this actually works and continues working properly

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by wazanator on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:52AM (#22719454)

Set a low limit then scale up.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by klohto on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:11AM (#22719128)

That's why you have the Lambda there to scale it down. You don't need to sit there.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by oefrha on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:17AM (#22719167)

Oh okay, I misunderstood.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by onion2k on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:23AM (#22726179)

there is plenty of CF templates

This by definition is deploying something you don't fully understand. If there's a problem in any of those templates you won't know. You won't really know if they even do what they say they do.

Using one to do something as important as this would be crazy.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by thinkharderdev on Monday March 30, 2020 @10:20AM (#22728208)

I don't think he's saying that you should blindly deploy this stuff. But you don't have to create a solution from scratch. There are existing templates out there that you can leverage to build your own solution

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by maest on Sunday March 29, 2020 @11:51AM (#22719928)

Billing alerts are not real time; far from it, actually.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by vxNsr on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:22PM (#22720715)

So set a lower limit

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by rightbyte on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:05AM (#22719074)

Then you need to be on call 24/7 if someone happens to DDOS you.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by klohto on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:11AM (#22719124)

That's why you have the Lambda there to scale it down. You don't need to sit there.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by mshade on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:36AM (#22719310)

Auto-self-DoS is what they were getting at!

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