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> we need a completely new experience for the next generation

I mean, at some point, if you're (say) using some insane amount of storage, you're going to pay for that.

I would agree that getting alerting right for billing-relevant events at whatever you're currently operating at should be a lot easier than it is. And I agree that there is a lot of room to baby-proof some of the less obvious mistakes that people frequently make, to better expose the consequences of some changes, etc.

But the flip side is that infra has always been expensive, and vendors have always been more than happy to sell you far more than you need along with the next new shiny whatever.

To the extent that these are becoming implicit decisions made by developers rather than periodic budgeted refresh events built by infra architects, developers need to take responsibility for understanding the implications of what they're doing.