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Remember people: The cloud is just someone else's computer.
Yeah there's that, and the fact that you have no control over how much the bill will be each renewal period. Those two things kept me off the cloud for anything important.
Most cloud providers have a way to set limits. Make sure you learn how to set appropriate limits to avoid unexpected bills.
The limits don't matter if the provider raises their price next month.
And some functions don't support hard limits, you'd have to set up a script monitoring load and literally take down your service if you get near the max
https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1
thats why i am trying to explain to my family since forever. their answer always amounts to something like "it would be illegal for them to look at my data!" like those companies would care. .
in many cases "looking at my data!" is in their TOS
Unless its a self-hosted cloud. Then its your own computers