> I reached out to a friend at Cloudflare and shortly thereafter, the penny dropped
Another advantage is his big network that he can ask for help. There's also a chance that his blog post will reach the right person in Azure and he'll get a reduced bill.
As someone who doesn't have the same network or the "fame", I am concerned about what would have happened to me in that situation.
Remember when no-sql came out and everyone was rushing to it because "rdbms don't scale"? I'm beginning to feel the same way towards "cloud" in the Azure or AWS sense. You can go really really far with standard issue VMs from linode or digital ocean and so on. I wonder how many are overpaying for Cloud services so far above and beyond what their actual needs are.
Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs
by sydthrowaway on Monday January 24, 2022 @04:35PM
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How are you teaching yourself?
Exactly this. As a low-level / embedded / non-cloud stuff dev, I've been getting up to speed through all the cloud-ification of the industry, but I'm still scared (not literally ofc) of running most things on my own on any big cloud provider (smaller ones seem more manageable).
I'm reading this and seems like being a customer of cloud services is like walking a dangeous path filled with gotchas and caveats, just jumping from cover to cover while hiding from danger, and hoping you're safe and didn't mess it up so far, "fingers crossed".
Like this tiny detail that he didn't realize was critical, so I would fall on it too plus on another 500s small papercuts: "oh I set cache up, so I hope all is well". "Yeah, no you aren't, I guess you didn't think of this detail about maximum cached file size! Gotcha, Game Over!"
Yeah cloud providers should have clearer communitacions and etc etc... but the fact of today is that they don't. So I'd never sleep well feelin 100% confident that I had covered and taken into account every minuscule detail and possible scenario that could end up being a disaster.