<story><title>Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt</title><url>https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>The fact that cloud providers don&amp;#x27;t have a simple &amp;quot;This is how much I can afford, don&amp;#x27;t ever bill me more than that!&amp;quot; box on their platforms makes development a lot scarier than it really needs to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donmcronald</author><text>This is my worst nightmare.  Lol.  I guess now is a great time to give Azure a shoutout for sitting on their hands for 8 years without so much as a response to the community for half a decade [1].&lt;p&gt;At least AWS allows using a prepaid credit card so they’ll  need to call me if things go haywire.  I bet if that $72k charge went through it would have been much harder to get out of.  “Sorry, we don’t have the money” is a much better negotiating position than “can we please have our money back?”&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;feedback.azure.com&amp;#x2F;forums&amp;#x2F;170030-signup-and-billing&amp;#x2F;suggestions&amp;#x2F;3238796-spending-limit-or-maximum-cost-cap-for-azure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;feedback.azure.com&amp;#x2F;forums&amp;#x2F;170030-signup-and-billing&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt</title><url>https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>The fact that cloud providers don&amp;#x27;t have a simple &amp;quot;This is how much I can afford, don&amp;#x27;t ever bill me more than that!&amp;quot; box on their platforms makes development a lot scarier than it really needs to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>serial_dev</author><text>It is baffling why cloud providers don&amp;#x27;t have that option.&lt;p&gt;I might want to have an app because I don&amp;#x27;t mind spending 50 dollars on my pet project as a hobby, but I don&amp;#x27;t ever want to spend more than that. Not if I write a wrong query that&amp;#x27;s suddenly becomes very expensive, not when I got attacked, and not even when I have legit users.&lt;p&gt;By the way, the same goes for some companies, too, just the threshold would be different.</text></comment>