Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

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Post by bharatsb » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 10:56 AM UTC

Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt
blog.tomilkieway.com

Re: Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

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Post by pettycashstash2 » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 11:40 AM UTC

Thank you for sharing. I was actually thinking of using fire base for my project. They make us so easy to sign up for free tier. Awaiting to see what happens in part 2

Re: Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

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Post by onion2k » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 11:49 AM UTC

The fact that cloud providers don't have a simple "This is how much I can afford, don't ever bill me more than that!" box on their platforms makes development a lot scarier than it really needs to be.

Re: Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

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Post by bharatsb » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 11:53 AM UTC

Part 2: https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-2/

Re: Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

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Post by bharatsb » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 11:53 AM UTC

pettycashstash2 wrote: post #2

Thank you for sharing. I was actually thinking of using fire base for my project. They make us so easy to sign up for free tier. Awaiting to see what happens in part 2

Part 2: https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-2/

Re: Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

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Post by villgax » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 11:53 AM UTC

I'd happily use a platform that allowed for an option for limiting billing on a daily/monthly/another metric.

Re: Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

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Post by atian » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 11:54 AM UTC

You can ask for a good faith billing adjustment. GCE or AWS is well aware that things happen, and collecting something is better than collecting nothing.

Re: Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

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Post by throwaway7281 » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 11:55 AM UTC

To put it into perspective: You give me $72K and I'll set you up a 1PB replicated storage infra with a total of 100+ available CPU cores and half a TB RAM.

I saw people burning through cash in the cloud, which makes you wonder weather money is any concern at all.

Re: Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

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Post by svrtknst » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 11:56 AM UTC

cloud providers are scam artist, dont @ me

Re: Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

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Post by MaxBarraclough » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 11:58 AM UTC

bharatsb wrote: post #4

Part 2: https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-2/

> Google let go of our bill as a one time gesture!

We've seen this happen with similar stories on AWS. Neither platform supports prepayment with a hard limit on costs, and this seems unlikely to change.