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Comment by cm2187 | Hacker News Reader

How about spending caps / circuit breakers? Doesn't seem an unsolveable problem to me.

Then you’re the person who took down their small business when they were doing well.

At AWS I’d consistently have customers who’d architected horrendously who wanted us to cover their 7/8 figure “losses” when something worked entirely as advertised.

Small businesses often don’t know what they want, other than not being responsible for their mistakes.

Everyone who makes this argument always assumes that every website on the internet is a for-profit business when in reality the vast majority of websites are not trying to make any profit at all, they are not businesses. In those cases yes absolutely they want them to be brought down.

Or instead of an outage, simply have a bandwidth cap or request rate cap, same as in the good old days when we had a wire coming out of the back of the server with a fixed maximum bandwidth and predictable pricing.

There are plenty of options on the market with fixed bandwidth and predictable pricing. But for various reasons, these businesses prefer the highly scalable cloud services. They signed up for this

Every business has a bill they are unprepared to pay without evaluating and approving budget, even under successful conditions and even if that approval step is a 10 second process. It's obvious that Amazon does not add this because of substantial profit over any other concern.

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