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Testing cloud services without surprise bills #cloud #cost

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:23:00 +0000

In an discussion of avoiding surprise AWS bills, User Havoc on HN says:

Somewhat surprised none of the major clouds off true sandboxed learning environments as a competitive advantage. i.e. We will not charge you more than $100 no matter what. Sure that doesn't work for enterprise stuff that has to be online, but there is a big market for people that can swallow $100 accidents but not 15k. And whoever offers that first will attract the cautious crowd. I've got friends that point blank refuse to use cloud due to the open ended billing. (Azure comes closes as best as I can tell...their MSDN style credits seem to be true hard capped) [Invariably this get's the "but what to do about the data...can't just delete it...yes you can. The $100 crowd is ok with that. 30 day grace then delete it...much like anyone with an unpaid bill]

Setting budget limit can help in avoiding surprise bills, But there could be a need-gap for providing learning environments for cloud services with fixed costs.

1 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Simple CLI for cloud deployments. #cloud #DevOps

Wed, 05 Feb 2020 09:19:00 +0000

I am a DevOps cloud engineer working with a team of designers, frontend and data engineers. I am seeing that the cloud stuff goes over their heads, and they hate the deployment process. For example; spinning up a group of databases to test an ETL job, deploying a site, or putting some script on a schedule. Even stuff like TerraForm is hard for them. They use AWS Lambdas for simple setups, but when the code base gets large and complex they come running to my team to help them deploy, or create new layers for their Lambdas. Oh, and no-one I know seems to use Heroku anymore. A few frontend guys use zeit.co, but they still need to create the database elsewhere.

Lately, I am spending time creating and maintaining scripts at work to help developers and designers deploy common stuff quickly.

I feel there is a needgap for a simple CLI tool that can ease the pain of cloud provisioning. Something that abstracts scaling, security, DNS, etc, and gets resources talking to each other.

3 points posted by corpulent

Upload local music and sync playlist #music #cloud

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:07:00 +0000

I had my entire local music library on Google Play Music and I enjoyed using it while it lasted. Now I don't want to face similar situation with another music service where I upload my local library, only to find the feature removed one day and to start searching for another service.

I would like a music service where I can upload my local music library, playlists to cloud and sync across devices; I want that service to do only this and not offer other online music subscriptions as then they will treat local music upload as secondary like how its happening with all major music service apps right now.

I heard from my friends and others in forums that they are willing to pay for such a service.

1 points posted by Trisha