2020-11-09 UTC
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petermolnar on the why I think of aws (and any other cloud provider) this way: they way they set up billing is so opaque - egress, ingress, i/o costs, etc - that if one makes a mistake, or, say, gets on top of HN, suddenly the previously very cheap hosting becomes an absolutely insane bill. There is no way of setting up hard limits on cost; - as in terminate the service if cost is above X - if that was a thing, I'd probably wouldn't think of aws a