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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by FastQ on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:20AM (#25372882)
I'm just a student but I've spent about 10 hours trying to figure out why Azure has been charging me >$5/day for their "basic" database @5DTUs, 2gb max storage. This morning I was so exasperated I sent a letter threatening to report them for fraud if nobody could tell me why I was being charged 30x the listed rate, which so far no one has. This is an extremely cathartic post to see that I'm not alone, thanks for sharing.
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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by marktolson on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:44AM (#25373093)
Go to billing > cost analysis > filter by resource break down. Azure billing analysis is pretty amazing.
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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by FastQ on Thursday December 10, 2020 @11:55AM (#25375652)
Yeah, but it just shows my database cost which is higher than is listed as far as I can tell.
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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by luser007 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:12PM (#25377221)
Could it be listed "hourly" and you're charged "daily"? Add in VAT (equal to 25% in some countries) and you match the 30 times higher than expected charge.
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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by ylere on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:44PM (#25377655)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/sql-databa...

Basic tier, 5 DTUs, 2 GB is listed as ~$4.8971/month or $0.0068/hour on this page. Extra storage would cost more but is not available for the basic tier.

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by mmcconnell1618 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:22PM (#25380707)
Do you have geo-replication turned on? More regions will be an additional $5/month (plus bandwidth between regions) if you replicate. You can serve everything out of a single region but it is pretty easy to add others if you're not paying attention during initial setup.
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