[Info-vax] OT: Cloud Computing - How it can go wrong in a very expensive way.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/11/2020 8:52 AM, David Wade wrote:
> ... and if you have a BIG system and something goes wrong you may end up 
> with a big bill...
> 
> https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/google_cloud_over_run/
> 
> .. these guys were lucky. I think usually you would have to pay....

I would guess so.

They wrote a web crawler with a software bug that caused an
infinite recursion (it did not discard links to pages
already processed).

With utility computing someone has to pay. Either the
customer with the software bug pays or all customers pay
a higher rate to cover such incidents. The first seems more
fair to me.

Arne