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

Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by onion2k on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:55AM (#25382778)

You've explained why it's hard for Google to not give me resources I can't pay for, but that's not what I care about, or what I'm asking for. What I'm asking for is a feature where I set a hard limit of $100 and that's the most I get billed - if my account accidently uses $5000 of resources before Google reconciles the usage with my budget then Google automatically waives the additional $4900 and then limits my account in some way until the problem is rectified.

Practically every time these blog posts come up they end with the provider refunding the costs. I just want that refund to be a feature.

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by jasonpeacock on Friday December 11, 2020 @11:02AM (#25387213)

So...you're saying that Google should give away $4900 of usage?

How will Google automatically differentiate between an "honest mistake" and someone taking advantage of this feature?

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by onion2k on Friday December 11, 2020 @02:33PM (#25389767)

So...you're saying that Google should give away $4900 of usage?

Yes. But they should also develop mechanisms to warn users that they've made a mistake before it happens, and improve the speed they can detect mistakes to lower the cost, and invent some way to detect someone intentionally abusing the feature.

But mostly they should make the fact they do give away $4900 when a mistake happens explicit. That isn't actually a change. They just need to make it clear that's what happens.

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