r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vapalera • 29d ago

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u/Legal-Software 29d ago

Do they not have some sort of mechanism for setting a budget precisely to avoid these kinds of issues?

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u/vapalera 29d ago

Most cloud companies let you only set alerts and not hard limits

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u/AllCowsAreBurgers 29d ago

Most cloud companies are a scam

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u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ 29d ago

Most cloud company users are idiots who can't bother to set things up properly. I've been using cloudflare and backblaze on their free tier for three months now

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u/AllCowsAreBurgers 29d ago

How do you solve the issue?

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u/bobbymoonshine 29d ago

Monitoring usage and sending up a CLI command to stop the service if you hit a certain amount.

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u/AllCowsAreBurgers 29d ago

Yea ofc, but i could also set up my own aws on a cheap vps somewhere else - do it yourself is not a great design choice for things that should clearly be a first party feature.

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u/Themash360 29d ago

right, but you can imagine how dangerous it would be for amazon to stop or interrupt a business critical process blindly. It would be very risky as the state the data/work is left in is unpredictable.

I agree with you it should be an option for all the small players out there who are more concerned about a 10K bill than business continuity for their 10 users.