How to Burn Money in the Cloud // Avoid AWS, GCP, Azure Cost Disasters

Out-of-control cloud computing becomes very expensive very quickly 💸. Learn how a startup racked up a $72K bill in just 2 hours on Google Cloud. Tips to control costs on AWS, GCP, and Azure services that are priced to scale.

#cloud #dev #learntocode

References

Courses

Use code lORhwXd2 for 25% off your first payment.

00:00 Hello World
00:49 $72k in 2 Hours
02:47 My AWS Story
03:35 Budget Kill Switch
04:32 Cloud Overflow
05:17 Scale Down
06:32 Bad Algorithms
08:02 Security

[Fireship]

Have you ever burned money in the cloud? Please, do tell 👇

[vipulpetkar]

I immediately checked my cloud dashboard after looking at that bill

[Conlexio]

do ✍🏼 not ✍🏼 create ✍🏼 infinite ✍🏼 loops ✍🏼 in ✍🏼 the ✍🏼 cloud

[arthurg]

Fun fact : Cloud Overflow = Bank Account Underflow

[mariobortoli]

One of my major fears while learning cloud. There should be a limit for how much you spend on the services, but I think no provider has this as a configuration.

[Fireship]

Sorry to keep you waiting, please grab a free sticker in the meantime. EDIT sold out!

[crivion]

Yes, I did burn money in the google coud, 5600$ bill in 4 hours - was attached by a scraping bot and thanks google cloud they understood and "reset" the bill

[patterntrader]

Somehow you always know exactly what I’m researching and come out with a perfectly explained video on it. Thank you sir

[lardosian]

Maybe it happened to google today, they were down for an hour!

[hariseldon]

I'm so glad we're on premise. We recently had a problem in production because we loaded thousands of records into memory by mistake, spinning up CPU and RAM usage. This made some customers unhappy because they couldn't use our service, but imagine this happening in the cloud. Unhappy customers AND a bill for useless work done!

[yogenp]

Awesome. As a frugal freelance dev, cost is one things that I gotta watch out for. Thanks @Fireship

[CyberQuickYT]

My first experience with cloud computing was with a simple GCP windows machine that had set rules (I explicitly set it to NOT grow, to avoid cost). It fit well into the free trial, so I just let it be. I deleted the machine after 6 months (out of 12 for free trial) and never really used GCP again.
Then I got a bill for 50$ for a machine I didn't even have access to (because it got deleted), and only thing their support said is to tell my bank to block it.

Nice

[dr.z]

6:00 It's interesting 69k/71k of the budget was related to Firestore reads pricing, whereas if we compare it to Oracle NoSQL database a 116B reads would cost around 287$ (99.5$ cheaper than Firestore reads pricing). Which means if Oracle is able to commercially sell these reads with such a price and gets a profit from it the actual cost is even much less, meaning when GCP takes this billing it loses almost nothing.

[NEvana]

made me go double check my aws billing dashboard... just in case

[abhishekdas]

There should be a feature like simulating the cloud run functions or some other services to catch errors before deploying to production and in this Artificial intelligence might help to catch up errors early than an average person would.

[joni_]

This is the reason why I am using good old VPS with monthly fixed pricing.

[ByronWatts]

I had a hacker rack up around 32k on my behalf on AWS a couple years ago. Not fun. Gladly Amazon believed me and credited my account.

[AlexN]

consistently impressed by the quality of your videos! one of the best programming channels on yt

[Retrosen]

Keep up these top tier videos mate! Cheers

[WrestlingTournamentsDotCom]

I've been binging your videos, thank you so much.