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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by patrickaljord on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:41PM (#25377616)
> and you can't arrange for a coworker or friend to pull the plug for you if something goes wrong?

This is HN, many of us are solo founders with no coworkers or employees. Also how could a "friend" pull the plug? If it was a physical server running in your house maybe, otherwise you can't really give them access to your AWS account with all your private clients data in there.

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by jjk166 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:54PM (#25377765)
If you don't have anybody who can monitor your test, and you're not monitoring your test, why are you doing a test?

As for having a non-employee pull the plug, set up an IAM user with permission to access the test instance

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by WrtCdEvrydy on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:51PM (#25378459)
> you're not monitoring your test, why are you doing a test?

Agile. Bringing you bankruptcy at the speed of cloud.

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