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Yeah it has firmly kept me away from AWS, Google cloud, and similar. I use Vultr or Digitalocean if I need a server somewhere because at least it's just a pre-set cost.
Can you not get charged for bandwidth overages? What happens if you use 3x your transfer limit?
AWS billing practices are horrible, and they are increasingly more “Oracle” like in their approach. I had a security issue related to a SaaS product which led to a $7k AWS line item when someone started sending a LIST request to S3 buckets billions of times. They would not consider refunding. Now I’m having a bunch of problems terminating some AWS Orgs accounts and they are being deliberately difficult in getting it…
The way Route53 pricing works, you could get a 1000$ bill any day - for DNS... Having just a single domain on there is enough.
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Whats your monthly spend? I used to work for an org with 50K monthly spend none cared at AWS about us. Now I work for a big org with very serious spend and it's night and day we can get access to eng. quickly we have regular meetings with PMs and get our requests for AWS features put onto roadmap etc.
I bet that's the case for the GP. They probably spend millions of dollars, so they get catered to and think it's the same treatment normal people get. I call it VIP vision. People don't even realize they're getting special treatment and assume their results are merit based rather than money based.
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> GCP's official method for doing this is … a cloud function that disables billing if your bill goes over a configured limit I’d love it if GCP’s official method were to disable billing if your bill went over a limit. Sadly, I suspect it would just disable systems instead.
How does "disabling billing" but not "disabling systems" work? Is this like asking the phone company "When I reach my plan limits, stop charging me money but let me keep making calls?"
I think GP was incorrect in the mechanism there.
I quoted GP verbatim, they said disable billing rather than disable service or delivery or system.