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0 pointsadriand1y ago0 comments

Could it work based on deviance from norms? Like a setting where you say, I’m okay with up to two standard deviations from our typical write volume but that’s it?

Or, alternatively, just let me set the size of the volume. Treat it like a hard drive?

In terms of your point about the data at rest, part of the issue is that we get a bill once per month, and that’s probably when we would notice it. Of course there is probably a Cloudwatch alarm or something we could set (I assume) but there’s so many damn services…

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danpalmer1y ago

This is sort of what quotas enforce, and most cloud services have quotas. You ask for an increased quota if you reach the current one, or the system might sometimes automatically increase it if it thinks you will need it.

This all trades off though against the possibility of bringing down one of your customers when they are hitting peak sales on their website, which is a very bad look.

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