Should I see what happens if I click "create?"
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Ok, I reduced the number of nodes to the max INT32 value. This reduced the monthly rate to just over one trillion US dollars. I'm a bit nervous to click create because if it processes it will surely take down US-EAST4-C.
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frankly if you leave your system vulnerable to this then when the inevitable happens you really only have yourself to blame. no time like the present.
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yeah i'm mostly just concerned like... what if it goes througuh and then you're on the hook for a bajillion fucktons of dollars, then what?
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"By default, you can provision up to 30 SSD nodes and up to 30 HDD nodes per zone in each Google Cloud project. If you need to provision more nodes than the default limits, you can request an increase." - I didn't expect the overflow error to pop up.
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Delete the tweets, reduce max integer by 1, then do it. We'll know that it worked if the region goes down, so no need to tweet it.
When they investigate, you could say you put -1 in, but somehow their validation logic overflowed the number.
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Then we can also ask why they use a signed number for an always +ve value, and why 32-bit when 16-bit is safer and still future-proof.
Btw, they're still lucky they used a signed number, the bill could have been twice. Just confuse them 😉