GCP just cost me over $1k because of a small OSS bug
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But no. Google somehow contacted my bank and got a new expiration date for my credit card, then sent me an email that they did it. How kind of them!
This is the first time I've ever had my credit card expiration date extended without my permission. I mean, yeah, notifying me it's about to expire is great. But not doing it automatically.
I only have a credit card on file with them so I can test HashBackup (I'm the author) to GCP. Consider it is Google after all, I'm afraid to try to remove my credit card because they might close down my gmail account too, which yeah, I am migrating off of, but don't want to lose it yet either. And if they do close my gmail account, I'm well aware of the recourse I have ... none!
How is that even legal?
My water utility will call me when my water usage spikes. That happened when I had a burst pipe but I'm not sure they're consistent with this so wouldn't count it as firmly as with the mobile carrier.
Besides, not providing an alert by default is still user-hostile, even if other services don't provide them.
it's in the issue. I'm not sure why you would run anything in the cloud without some sort of kill switch or major alerting. You are potentially risking bankruptcy unless you are able to get enough social media attention for them cloud provider to waive your bill.
The cloud providers should be forced to add a "kill my services at this cost point" feature
You could argue that there should be some sane defaults though.
GCP, AWS, etc are usually good about waving bills if it's very clearly an accident and the first time it happened, especially if you catch it early. Not always of course, but it's a good idea to create a billing support ticket if this happens.
(Former GCP employee)
I can't recommend any service with open-ended pricing to any student or beginner. They risk bankruptcy.
wow, invading users privacy sometimes comes at a high price.
Any store you visit has cameras, websites might too. Recordings aren't necessarily associated with identity or used to track or invade privacy, it can all be anonymized and deleted.