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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-12-11, David Wade <g4ugm at dave.invalid> 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....
>

That budget limit should have been a mandatory limit not an advisory one.

And upgrading that free Firebase plan without his explicit consent
was outright wrong IMHO.

I also noticed the claims about it taking a day for the totals to update.

Question: If Google had tried to claim the money from him in the courts,
would they have lost because of these issues ?

Simon.

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