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		7ewis on May 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase How did you manage to increase your bill 15x in Lambda?

paulgb on May 27, 2019 [–]

It seems to have been a combination of a traffic surge and a third-party API being temporarily slow. The slow API meant that I ended up paying for more idle CPU time during the request round-trip.

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