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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by jsiepkes on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:10AM (#25372815)
Not only development but also running in production. You can configure alerts but you can't configure a hard limit. Thats just insane. That makes working with GCP like playing with fire.
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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by k__ on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:19AM (#25372875)
What about throttling?
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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by herendin2 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:24AM (#25372918)
Nice to have, but people want a throttle that shuts off dead at a certain number of dollars
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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by pwinnski on Thursday December 10, 2020 @09:33AM (#25374048)
aka "Bankrupt me more slowly"

Throttling doesn't stop the drain.

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