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Accident Forgiveness
Charging for resources you didn't mean to buy is bad business.
For people who don’t do a lot of cloud work, what all this means is that every PR push sets off a little alarm in the back of their heads: “you may have just incurred $200,000 of costs!”. The Fully Automated Accident-Forgiving Billing System of the Future (which we are in fact building and may even one day ship) will give you a line-item veto on your invoice. Someday, when we’re in a monopoly position, our founders have all been replaced by ruthless MBAs, and Kurt has retired to farm coffee beans in lower Montana, we may stop doing this stuff.
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