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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

Business scale based alerts #infrastructure #costsaving

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 07:09:00 +0000

When we run a small business, we use different services based on our scale(number of users) e.g. Cloud infrastructure services but the service provider itself has no information about our scale or goals and so the onus is upon us to properly scale the required infrastructure services depending upon the number of users.

Currently we can get alerts indirectly based upon our business scale e.g. When the API query limits hits a threshold or other monitoring rules(Network, Storage, CPU etc.). But we have to set each of those rules independently and there is no central product scale based monitoring service.

I feel there is a need gap for a centralized business scale based monitoring service which can send us alerts regarding our infrastructure services when our users grow or drop and not just based on the infrastructure resources. This can help us save money on our infrastructure services and also serve our customers without any interruption by not over-commissioning or under-commissioning.

1 points posted by Yogesh Basu