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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by beoberha on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:56PM (#25378527)
I work in this space and you’re absolutely correct. Your last paragraph hits the nail on the head for pretty much every complain people have about the public clouds.
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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by patrec on Thursday December 10, 2020 @05:51PM (#25379878)
Right, so let's say Congress passes a bill that requires cloud providers to enable hard spending limits by start of February 2021, and eat any extra usage costs that exceeded a set limit.

What is your educated guess by when this feature would be essentially correctly implemented in AWS and GCP (essentially = negligible costs to the providers due to either false negatives (bills they eat) and false positives (PR fallout, when SomeSite gets shutdown despite not being over limit)?

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