Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight
Billing budget? Free plan? All useless when buggy code went into overdrive Tim Anderson Thu 10 Dec 2020 // 14:38 UTC Share Copy Sudeep Chauhan, founder of startup Milkie Way, suffered a bad case of bill shock when a test with a $7.00 billing budget and a free database plan on Google Cloud platform (GCP) generated a $72,000 invoice overnight. "I jumped out of the bed, logged into Google Cloud Billing, and saw a bill for ~$5,000," Chauhan wrote on his company's blog. "Super stressed, and not sure what happened, I clicked around, trying to figure out what was happening. I...
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