[bigiain]

That's kinda not "server less" specific though.

There's no end of stories of people discovering 10s to thousand in bill run up on AWS (ir Azure or GCP) because they foot gunned themselves and didn't set up alerts and/or automated service suspension using the cloud providers available tools.

Part of me thinks you shouldn't be allowed to provision EC2/S3/Lambda/whatever without first having set up a Cloudwatch alert and a rule to stop your service if your bill goes past expected/acceptable limits.

Of course Amazon (or Microsoft or Google) could make that _way_ easier than they do. It'd be nice if there was a simple form in your account setting where you could configure it to suspend services if your projected monthly bill passed $limit.

I think it's a more generic "horror story of working with other people's computers".