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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by thaumasiotes on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:28AM (#22719238)
You can easily calculate what the bill will be at the end of the month if no new data is stored or deleted between now and then. So if you need a hard cutoff for storage, use that.

There's enough room there for workflows where I know I'm going to delete data later that allowing configuration would be valuable. (Maybe I can set a timed expiration at the moment of storage, instead of having to store first and separately delete later? That would keep end-of-month predictions accurate.) But it isn't difficult to set the hard cutoff.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by unreal37 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:25PM (#22720748)
So then your AWS/Azure service is turned off April 2 because you had some temporary spike in uploads?

What you're asking for is not possible and will have unintended consequences. Guaranteed not to meet every customer's expectation of how it works.

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Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure by thaumasiotes on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:41PM (#22720898)
> So then your AWS/Azure service is turned off April 2 because you had some temporary spike in uploads?

Yes, that's the idea. Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719015

>> My pet project cannot involve the risk of possibly costing me thousands or more because I made a mistake or it got super popular over night. I'd rather my site just 503.

> What you're asking for is not possible

How so?

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