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An occasional $4K charge is negligible for a business (almost everyone is better off dealing with this sort of overrun than troubleshooting servers, all else equal), and anyway this is a particularity of AWS CloudFront's billing protections rather than a fundamental flaw with serverless.

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In most countries in the world, $4K charge is absolutely not negligible.

I doubt this is true. If you're operating a tech company anywhere in the world, I'm guessing $4K is pretty close to negligible. In whatever case, indexing by country is misleading, "tech companies" in general is more interesting, if there are a handful of tech companies in the third world for which this doesn't hold, it doesn't invalidate the generalization.

In SMB companies around the world "an occasional $4K charge" is definitely not negliable.

Again, we’re not talking about SMBs, we’re talking about tech companies generally. (What share of SMBs are there doing serverless or with any cloud footprint at all?)

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