I got pwned by my cloud costs
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I got pwned by my cloud costs
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Re: I got pwned by my cloud costs
#2Very nice writeup, thanks to the author for writing it so clearly for someone who is not familiar with the nitty-gritty to be able to follow it.
Re: I got pwned by my cloud costs
#3Ouch. If Troy Hunt of all people can make this mistake, it can happen to anybody. HIBP is an awesome service funded totally by donations, so it's too bad this happened. Of course Microsoft is happy to hide behind their confusing pricing model and let customers overpay for Azure without alerting them.
Re: I got pwned by my cloud costs
#4It would be really classy if MS forgave that debt, especially considering the service is a public benefit.
Re: I got pwned by my cloud costs
#5Have you contacted Azure? On one hand you owe the money “fair and square”, but on the other if I were them I’d waive an unexpected $10k bill to a good faith actor that was incurred without any proactive notification by Azure.
Re: I got pwned by my cloud costs
#6Ouch. If Troy Hunt of all people can make this mistake, it can happen to anybody. HIBP is an awesome service funded totally by donations, so it's too bad this happened. Of course Microsoft is happy to hide behind their confusing pricing model and let customers overpay for Azure without alerting them.
Every cloud makes this mistake easy! You have to manually activate billing alerts for everyone because they want you to spend more snd more each month.
I am still waiting for a cloud without these dark patterns. But that will never happen because it‘s leaving a big amount of money on the table by not being hostile.
Re: I got pwned by my cloud costs
#7Ouch. If Troy Hunt of all people can make this mistake, it can happen to anybody. HIBP is an awesome service funded totally by donations, so it's too bad this happened. Of course Microsoft is happy to hide behind their confusing pricing model and let customers overpay for Azure without alerting them.
So I guess one method would be to set spending-limits when you setup your account. But that'd lead to constant moments of having to bump your budget (or worse, get approval to do so from Accounting) when you're trying to work.
There are both spending limits and alerting that you could use, but would be impossible to predetermine from Azure's perspective, so they rightly ask you to.
Re: I got pwned by my cloud costs
#8Have you contacted Azure? On one hand you owe the money “fair and square”, but on the other if I were them I’d waive an unexpected $10k bill to a good faith actor that was incurred without any proactive notification by Azure.
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Re: I got pwned by my cloud costs
#9It would be really classy if MS forgave that debt, especially considering the service is a public benefit.
I would go as far as saying that the hosting for such a service should be entirely sponsored by Microsoft.
Re: I got pwned by my cloud costs
#10Have you contacted Azure? On one hand you owe the money “fair and square”, but on the other if I were them I’d waive an unexpected $10k bill to a good faith actor that was incurred without any proactive notification by Azure.
As opposed to all those other customers who are not good faith actors?