Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by uoaei on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:12PM (#25377962)

> It is baffling why cloud providers don't have that option.

...is it? If a lazy dev leaves their corporate account open and you can bill it for their negligence, protected by the contract you already signed, you earn a lot of money. From a purely business perspective, it is stupid(!) to provide a stopgap for that.

Edit: to be clear I am not advocating one way or the other. But it is surprising that people are "baffled" by this obvious profit optimization.

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by camjohnson26 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:45PM (#25380368)

Google is around a trillion dollar company, your $75,000 is a completely immaterial amount to them. Not to mention it would be a one time payment that would drive away customers and lead to bad PR like this post.

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by AntiImperialist on Thursday December 10, 2020 @09:22PM (#25381506)

Except Google has 4 million customers. If 1% of their customers made a 75k mistake, they make 3 billion dollars.

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by uoaei on Thursday December 10, 2020 @11:48PM (#25382428)

So... where else are you going to go if you don't like these policies?

If everyone has this policy, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and the rest are in a good place. And suddenly it's the "industry standard."

This hypothetical is already enacted today...

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