[MyFedora]

This comment reminds me of unsafe pedestrian crosswalks in car-centric cities.

Sure, a crosswalk may have an extensive system to warn drivers of pedestrians, but that doesn't change the fact a driver hits a pedestrian there at least once a month. It only has to happen once to ruin someone's life.

For cloud providers, the obvious solution is hard budget limits. Ask people to set a hard budget limit before they get the opportunity to drown themselves in debt. Free up some workload off of the support team in the process.

Hard budget limits change the process to avoid these charges almost entirely. Warnings only inform a few people that they're aware the process lands people in debt, and to please use the broken process correctly to avoid the severe financial consequences.