“The saving grace here, which you’ll learn if you ever become that $200,000 story, is that nobody pays those bills.”
Fly.io now promises to refund unexpected charges, but only for customers with a support contract. Everyone else keeps the same unwritten deal AWS and GCP offer: beg billing support and hope. The automated version that would let anyone veto a line item is, in Fly’s own words, a long ways away. Cloud providers built meters with no ceiling and call it forgiveness when they decline to collect.