Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I...
by x0x0 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:05AM
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> I also think the lack of options on limiting max billing for flexible services is pretty reasonable actually.
It's really scummy. There's no reason not to allow me to set, eg, a 5-10x normal spend hard limit where they shut things off. For things like lambdas with accidental reflection (stop lambdaing), someone using your bandwidth to serve files (stop serving), a bug in a your Athena scripts that downloads a far broader date range than expected (stop all athena), etc.
It's really scummy. There's no reason not to allow me to set, eg, a 5-10x normal spend hard limit where they shut things off. For things like lambdas with accidental reflection (stop lambdaing), someone using your bandwidth to serve files (stop serving), a bug in a your Athena scripts that downloads a far broader date range than expected (stop all athena), etc.