Re:How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure
by nucleardog on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:23PM
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We've got processes that push massive files into S3 for a later to stage to then stream out, and delete when they've completed successfully.
So now we've created a situation where everything's running fine, our bill is consistently $500/mo, I go casually turn on a $1k/mo spending limit... aaaaand suddenly everything starts failing in totally non-obvious ways.
No, for services like these it should cap at the cost of keeping the data indefinitely. If your budget limit for S3 was $1000 per month, and you tried to add an object which if not deleted would make you use $1010 next month (and every month after that), it should reject adding that object.