“It really hurt, and it shouldn’t have happened.”
The Pwned Passwords zip grew past 15GB, Cloudflare quietly stopped caching it, and Azure billed egress on every 17.3GB download. The damage was over AU$11,000 in a month. Nothing broke and no alarm fired, because Azure does not cap spend by default. If Troy Hunt can get blindsided by a cloud bill, set a budget alert today.