I'm migrating an app from Amazon to Google and part of it involves copying some photos from S3 to GCS. I have a task running which iterates over the datastore to copy the image for each entry and replace the location reference. I'm not in any rush so it's just doing them one at a time and chugging along running on App Engine classic F1, copying a file every few seconds.
Throughout the day I regularly check on the task queue, the datastore, the logs (both App Engine and Amazon) and the GCS bucket and everything is working as expected. I expect it will cost a few dollars based on my calculations. Then one time the dashboard tries to kill me by reporting that I will owe $190,000+ Eek! What happened to the $10 daily limit I set as a safety net?! So of course I immediately stop everything, report the issue with the dashboard feedback option and open a support ticket and have waited a few days but still haven't heard anything back from anyone. I am completely confident that the price reported is wrong but I still have to go through and double or triple check everything and it's rather concerning. I'm almost afraid to let anything run but I added more logging and restarted the task and also started looking up flights to south america to possibly begin my new life as a fugitive. It seems that once the number of ops goes over 50,000 (free daily allowance?) the price displayed suddenly starts jumping up by huge amounts. Here's snippets from screenshots taken a couple of minutes apart (literally, between going to the task queue page to pause it and coming back to double check). <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XIOqux3lGnU/Vr4M2JGfrSI/AAAAAAAACSI/60u6FoPNPjc/s1600/cloud-storage-ops.png> It seems like it's expecting to charge $10 *per each billable op*, not for a million of them but then the bill was almost exactly a million times higher than I was expecting it to be. So my questions are: * It is a misreporting issue ... right? I mean, I *know* it has to be, but such big numbers are scary and I want to be sure. Please tell me it is, *please* (yeah, no desperate panic, keeping calm ... breathe ...) * Would the daily billing limit definitely protect against things like this if my code was actually trying to use that level of resources? I tried to find a definitive answer as to what it covered and what it didn't (specifically GCS) and couldn't find one. Many thanks Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/7e38fb4c-5d07-4f84-ba7e-8fcf424297f2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
