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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by aidenn0 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:44PM (#25380897)
My guess is that the billing logic is separate from the application logic. There's probably a delay between the two and mostly one-way communication.
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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by Retailer on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:00AM (#25382477)
1) But they supported this before on GAE. GAE had 'spending limits'.

2) Also if they are able to figure out when you've hit your daily free quota and cut you off almost immediately, how are they not able to figure this out?

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by welkie on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:29PM (#25400803)
If I recall correctly, GAE is an example of something they made specifically to be a cloud product. Products like Compute Engine, GCS, Bigtable, and Pub/Sub are things developed internally and then sold publicly once they realized others might find them useful. Perhaps the products developed first for internal use weren't developed with features like measuring billing usage in real time in mind.
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