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0 pointsnrmitchi5y ago0 comments

According to reports, their monthly AWS spend (prior to today, obviously) was ~300k (or 3.6M/year).

7.7k is not really a noticeable increase, and any alarms that did trigger would likely have been attributed to increased user growth and platform load.

That is if someone was even seeing a billing alarm alerting with every other issue that was going on.

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curiousllama5y ago

I've seen more than one company that had a cloud spend policy that boiled down to: "if you spend a lot, the finance guy is gonna send you a snarky email a week later"

Totally not surprised they didn't catch a 7.7k spike in real time

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