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Re:Serverless Horrors by christophilus on Sunday September 07, 2025 @12:52PM (#45159839)
I agree, but I could also see how someone would complain about that: “Our e-commerce site was taken down by Amazon right on our biggest day of the year. They should have just moved us up to the next tier.”
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Re:Serverless Horrors by pixl97 on Sunday September 07, 2025 @01:13PM (#45160055)
Then let that be the non default option.
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Re:Serverless Horrors by derefr on Sunday September 07, 2025 @02:31PM (#45160908)
The default option is always going to be the one that makes the majority of Amazon's paying customers happy.
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Re:Serverless Horrors by mjevans on Sunday September 07, 2025 @02:55PM (#45161102)
Maybe offer 'Sales day rush auto-scale' as a setting.
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Re:Serverless Horrors by ndsipa_pomu on Sunday September 07, 2025 @01:06PM (#45159978)
Seems like the most flexible option is to put a spending limit in place by default and make it obvious that it can affect availability of the service if the limit is reached.

My credit cards have credit limits, so it makes sense that a variable cost service should easily be able to support a spending limit too.

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Re:Serverless Horrors by magicalhippo on Sunday September 07, 2025 @01:50PM (#45160499)
That would get caught during the pre-peak stress testing.

You do do stress testing ahead of peak season, right?

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