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0 pointsSebb7675y ago0 comments

> you’ve reached 80% of your specified quota and are about to be shut off

Because that might be very quick. Maybe you've got a 100x sign up boost in your SaaS app and you're missing out on the profit of your live?

Also, what do you want to shut down? EC2 instances, which might loose you data? Maybe no new instances, but your SaaS app needs those? Shut down all traffic? Delete your S3 files? All of those could be the possible reason for exploding cost and suddenly cutting any of those could be fatal.

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freehunter5y ago

Nothing is going to be perfect but if you have those concerns you can just opt out.

So many people seem to forget that you’re not being forced to use any of the options available to you. You can choose not to enable that. But right now you can’t choose the opposite.

What you’re describing is called “implementation details” and they don’t negate the utility of the feature overall.

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