It is scary building on the public cloud as a solo dev or small team. No real safety net, possibly unbounded costs, etc. A large portion of each personal project I do is spent thinking about how to prevent unexpected costs, detect and limit them, and react to them. I used to just chuck everything onto a droplet or VPS, but a lot of the projects I am doing lately need services from Google or AWS. I tend to prefer GCP at this point because at least I can programmatically disconnect the billing account when they get around to tripping the alert.

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Bridged7756 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I wonder what happens if you just decide not to pay. Surely that would have some legal implications in the US, but what about elsewhere?

	▲	spacebanana7 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There are very few countries where consumer rights apply to B2B transactions, especially if it’s multiple people operating as a “small team”. A solo dev however might be able to present themselves as a retail consumer, and leverage some trading standards related rules for unclear pricing or something similar.