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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/11/2020 1:41 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?

That will probably depend on the jurisdiction, fine print in ToS etc..

But cloud business is B2B and in general requirements for protecting
customers against their mistakes are smaller for B2B than for B2C.

Arne