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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

612 points · 304 comments · elffjs

joshdavham · 1791078994 · focus · HN ↗
It’s incredible that in 2026, AWS and GCP are only just now introducing this. It’s possibly one of the most obviously needed features for a cloud provider.
Also, does anyone know why it’s taken this long? I suspect it’s a technical reason. While one could be cynical, I doubt it’s an intentional business/product decision. Hard spending caps are both excellent product differentiators and could possibly save these providers money as they don’t have to forgive their users when they accidentally over-use a service.
1. bpodgursky · 1791082101 · focus · HN ↗
  How do you hard-cap S3 and other persistent data storage?
  "Sorry, you had a hard cap on AWS spend so we deleted all your S3 data on August 27th". Yeah not going to fly.
  1. matkoniecz · 1791098065 · focus · HN ↗
    > How do you hard-cap S3 and other persistent data storage?
    grace period as AWS did or set aside x% of data spend limit on holding existing data for N days

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