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Re:Ask HN: What do you do to prevent runaway billing cloud c... by bob1029 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:02AM (#37022708)
We set up some cost alerts in Azure to email us a warning if we trip certain thresholds. Do the other hyperscalars not offer this kind of feature?
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Re:Ask HN: What do you do to prevent runaway billing cloud c... by tikkun on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:34AM (#37023045)
From what I can tell, gcp has alerts at thresholds, but nothing smarter than that. e.g. I'd prefer anomaly detection, and also the ability to set a billing threshold at which the on-demand services would be disabled
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Re:Ask HN: What do you do to prevent runaway billing cloud c... by necovek on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:07AM (#37022760)
AWS does: alerts, hard spending limits and my favourite feature, anomaly detection (sudden jumps in cost).
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Re:Ask HN: What do you do to prevent runaway billing cloud c... by NoZebra120vClip on Sunday August 06, 2023 @01:20PM (#37024332)
> hard spending limits

Wow, that must have been added newly in the past two years. I completely erased and shut down my AWS account, because this was not available; all I could do was set alerts and feebly attempt to terminate the EC2 instance. I am pleased that there is now a way to ensure that cost overruns do not happen. I would certainly consider returning to tinkering with cloud services in light of this.

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